Chapter 146 Romantic Contagion (9) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update) [VIP]
The Wang family may go bankrupt without realizing that the problem is not with the company's management, nor with hiring killers or murderers, nor with the other party being too powerful, but with the surname bonus.
The weather was a little chilly that year. Mr. Wang opened a company but did not change his last name before registering it. Perhaps everything was wrong from the beginning.
As Diane said, many seats in the class were empty. 90% of those high-IQ students who looked like they could join the Mensa Club at any second yesterday left by helicopter, and most of the remaining students were useless even if they went. Unlike the design field, there was no need to go at all.
Everyone's after-school conversations also turned into current hot topics related to the Wang family.
What the teacher on the stage said was no longer important at this moment. Everyone was like students who had to attend their last lesson before the long vacation. Their hearts had already drifted away to who knows where else. The whole classroom was filled with the whispers of students.
Halfway through the class, Huai Jiamu sent over what his people had found.
Compared with Dai Anni's vague explanation, the information provided by Huai Jiamu was much more detailed.
Things really started with the death of Vice President Li last night.
The Li and Wang families have been competing in the business world for a long time. Both sides have used many means, both overtly and covertly. The relationship between the two sides can be likened to the coriander-eating party and the non-coriander party, the sweet rice dumpling party and the salty rice dumpling party, the sweet tofu pudding and the salty tofu pudding... That's enough, it can be seen that the person who wrote the information is hungry.
In short, they just don't get along.
The next generations of both parties attend Olds Business College, and neither side can stand the fact that they are not getting along.
Guan Hongyan heard Dai Anni mumbling several times. She was typing on her phone in math class and cursing Li Moumou in a low voice for looking like a villain this morning. She couldn't stand this.
This Mr. Li is probably the heir of the Li family or something like that.
In short, not all of the students who stayed behind were involved in Li's business. There were also quite a few, like Dai Annie, whose family business had nothing to do with either party and who were simply there to watch the fun.
According to her, she couldn't stand anyone, and both heirs had serious illnesses.
Yes, I hate everyone equally.
Diane's attitude is the same as the attitude of most people towards Wang's current downfall. Adding icing on the cake is far less likely than adding insult to injury. Most students are very realistic.
As for the reason why Li suddenly attacked, in a Mary Sue world with Killer Island, Killer Organization, and Killer Ranking, it can be said that it is not the first time that the name of the other party's executive is put on the bounty.
The senior executives of both sides were also aware that their lives were facing serious dangers at all times, so they tried their best to be well prepared during travel and various activities.
In addition to security, the specific preparations also include the choice of travel location. For example, the restaurant that Bai Jinshu came to for free is a very famous neutral area. No one can get into a fight here, so Li's vice president felt at ease when he went to eat without bringing anyone.
Who could have thought that by such a coincidence, the three killer sisters who didn't know the rules killed people in the restaurant, and the death of Vice President Li successfully angered Li, and the weather turned cooler, which led to the bankruptcy of Wang.
After reading the information in the group, Lu Changfeng twitched his lips and looked at Cen Bingqi in front of him, feeling deeply the power of the butterfly effect.
Bai Jinshu closed his phone without changing his expression.
If we really want to trace it back, the problem actually lies with himself. If he didn't have the capitalist purpose of wanting to use [Heroine Bai Hua] to cut onions, he wouldn't have made up a restaurant at random. If he didn't make up the restaurant at random, [Heroine Bai Hua] wouldn't have imagined that this restaurant was a mysterious place related to the underworld. If [Heroine Bai Hua] didn't imagine, this restaurant wouldn't have become a neutral restaurant to attract Vice President Li to dine without bodyguards. If Vice President Li didn't dine without bodyguards, he wouldn't be killed by the three killer sisters who didn't know the rules, and Li wouldn't have lost his temper and Wang wouldn't have gone bankrupt.
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If this not-so-lucky surname in Mary Sue novels was 50% responsible for Wang's bankruptcy, then Bai Jinshu must have at least accounted for the remaining 50%.
However, the causes and consequences of Wang’s bankruptcy have been figured out, but the reason why it went bankrupt so quickly has not been figured out.
Although "Tianliang Wangpo" should also be an important clue and one of the important rules in the Mary Sue world, Li has been fighting with them for so long, why can he bankrupt the other party overnight this time?
Even if the Wang family went bankrupt when the weather got cold, there were so many cold weather events in the years before that. How come the Wang family didn't go bankrupt at that time?
Bai Jinshu opened his phone and sent a message: [Ask your people to check again. ]
[Maybe the Li family has a new way out. ]
The morning passed quickly, and the sudden collapse of Wang's company became a new topic in the school. When it was time for lunch break, Dai Anni quickly walked out of the classroom with her cell phone in hand, hand in hand with another girl from the next class. Their voices could be vaguely heard, and they were discussing related topics.
On the other side, Xu Zichen and others also arrived at the door of Bai Jinshu's class.
"Shi Linling didn't come to school." He walked in front, looked around to see that there was no one else, frowned slightly and spoke.
As soon as they went to school today, they were caught off guard by the helicopter and the bankruptcy of Wang's. When they went to look for Shi Linling after the first class, they learned that she did not come to school this morning.
After the notebook was lost yesterday, Shi Linling said that she was a student in Class A of Grade 12, and asked them to tell her if they knew any clues about the notebook.
Who could have thought that after one night, Shi Linling's family would be implicated in the bankruptcy of Wang's company, and the first person to own "Romantic Contagion" would never be found again.
"Shi Linling's family should also be one of the companies affected by Wang's bankruptcy," Bo Yuan said, "This morning, the students who shared the dormitory with her heard her get very angry."
This is the gossip that only girls can hear.
"After Shi Linling received the news in the morning, she reacted violently and started rummaging through boxes and cabinets. As she was rummaging, she frantically asked the people around her who had taken her diary. Her attitude was very abnormal, and she was completely different from her usual self. It was said that she was extremely panicked."
"Diary..." Guan Hongyan subconsciously turned back to look at Romantic Contagion which was still in her schoolbag, "She is looking for the original book."
After Shi Linling encountered the incident, his first reaction was to check whether there were any related records in the original work.
This behavior definitely did not arise suddenly, but was a habit accumulated over a long period of time. After getting this notebook, she formed the habit of reading the original work first when encountering something.
"Have you found out anything special about Shi Linling?" Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes.
"Yes," Yun Tian said confidently, "Shi Linling is one grade higher than us. Information about her should not be widely circulated among students of the same grade. But the strange thing is that the impression these heirs have of Shi Linling, apart from the notebook she never leaves her hand, is that she is very good at making decisions for the company. Although she is not yet an adult, she is already quite famous in the family business."
"And what's special is that she didn't show any talent in this area when she was a child. This ability to predict the future only appeared after she entered the Olds Business School."
"She is so good at predicting things," Guan Hongyan crossed her arms, "I think it's because she has the original book in her hands."
The story of the original novel begins when the heroine Bai Hua successfully enters Olds Business School. It is only after entering Olds Business School that Shi Linling begins to be able to predict things.
"And Shi Linling actually started school a year late," Bo Yuan added, "It is said that she had an accident while surfing the year she started school, so she postponed it for a year to recover from the injury."
This behavior is just like deliberately being in the same class as [Heroine Baihua].
"Shi Linling is definitely not a native, or she must have known that the story would unfold a year later," Xu Zichen touched his chin, "otherwise it wouldn't be such a coincidence that her enrollment time is arranged at the same time as [Heroine Baihua] and the four princes."
The help that the plot can provide is immeasurable.
Just like yesterday, the reason why they arranged for Guan Hongyan to take over the [White Flower Female Lead] was because they saw in the plot in advance that the [Domineering Male Lead] was going to puncture her tires, so they stepped forward to be the good guy who helped her in times of need.
Although we know that the plot will definitely not let the [White Flower Heroine] go home like this, according to the routine, she should meet a male supporting role among the four princes like the [Gentle Male Second] who happens to pass by, and then sigh that the other party is a good person or something like that.
But now that they know the news, they can snatch the heroine away one step ahead of time.
This is the benefit of knowing the other side's story in advance.
From Shi Linling's perspective, if she could predict the direction of the other company based on the daily life of the "domineering male protagonist" that would not be shown to outsiders, or grasp the timing of the move, she could achieve the effect of advance prediction.
"It seems that Shi Linling must know the origin of this book, but the problem now is that it is difficult to see her..." Guan Hongyan nodded slowly as if thinking, "Cen Bingqi, can you ask Xuanyuan Huan if he can contact Shi Linling?"
"I'm afraid it won't work," she denied herself before Bai Jinshu could answer, "Now the bankruptcy of Wang's has affected Shi Linling's company. At this critical moment, even if we can contact her, I'm afraid she won't be in the mood to talk to us."
If Shi Linling traveled through time, then she has been in this world for more than three years. If she traveled through time from the womb, then it would be even longer, about ten years.
After such a long time, the other party must have a lot of feelings for his parents and family business in this world, otherwise he would not have injured his leg just to start school a year later, just to be in the same grade as the [domineering male protagonist] so as to get information.
"What should we do now?" Ming Jingxuan was a little worried. "If we can't find Shi Linling to ask about the origin of the book, then we don't know how the book appeared in this space based on the rules of the book."
"Cen Bingqi?" Guan Hongyan suddenly shouted.
"Hmm?" Bai Jinshu looked up from the chat history with Huai Jiamu. "Yes, what's up?"
"Where were you talking about?" His gaze was too natural, and he didn't seem guilty at all for slacking off and chatting while everyone else was analyzing the situation.
"Let's talk about Shi Linling," Guan Hongyan has always been very kind to this teammate who seems very well-behaved and never causes trouble, "Now that she has returned home, we can't contact her. What should we do next?"
Should I start from the heroine again or try to contact Shi Linling?
"Why does it have to be Shi Linling?" Bai Jinshu blinked in surprise, "Can't it be someone else?"
"Others?" Lu Changfeng asked curiously.
"Romantic Contagion," Bai Jinshu raised his chin slightly in front of him and pointed at the book in Guan Hongyan's hand, "Aren't there two known copies so far? Then besides Shi Linling, there must be another person who has Romantic Contagion 2.
And the plot that happened in Encounter yesterday proved that the plots between the first and second parts will have a chain reaction.
Under the gaze of the exploration team members, Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows: "And those who own the original work, will they be able to resist using this huge golden finger to avoid getting close to the protagonist?"
If you only know the plot but don't engage in it, then there is no difference between having this book or not.
Once someone wants to profit from it, the person who has the book will definitely go back and contact the protagonist.
"Encounter?"
"The three killer sisters?"
Guan Hongyan and Xu Zichen spoke at the same time.
"Bingo," Bai Jinshu leaned back slightly, "As long as we get close to the protagonist in the second part, we will definitely find the person who owns Romance Contagion 2."
"And..." He shook the phone in his hand. On the screen, the second message from Huai Jiamu was flashing a faint light. "There is indeed another reason for the downfall of the Wang family this time."
"It is said that a mysterious person is involved."
"Li contacted the most powerful hacker on the Internet. It is said that this person was the main force that caused Wang's company to go bankrupt overnight."
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[Heroine Baihua] Today was the most comfortable day I had since entering Olds Business School.
In the past, she, who was out of tune with her classmates, had always been the focus of the crowd. Even if she was deliberately ignored, she was still the focus in another sense.
But today, not only were more than half of her classmates missing, but the remaining ones were also discussing other topics and had no time to pay attention to her.
It's the kind of thing where I really don't have time to care about her from the bottom of my heart, rather than just ignoring her or deliberately rejecting her.
That was enough to make her feel comfortable.
What's more, yesterday she had the most eventful and happiest first day in her history.
She made a new friend at this new school and even found a job at a fancy restaurant that sounded pretty good.
It’s just chopping onions, should be easy, right?
[Heroine Baihua] ran to where she parked her bicycle as soon as the get out of class was over. The chef in the high-end restaurant said yesterday that she had to arrive at her post before 6:30, not even a second late.
The get out of class at Olds Business School ends at 4:20. It takes just two hours to ride from here to the old town where she used to work, but it is far from the high-end wealthy area.
After all, the old town is actually located in a more central location in the city, but the wealthy area is in the suburbs on the edge of the city.
The good news is that the actual location of Olds Business School is also in the suburbs of the city. The bad news is that the wealthy area is in the suburbs on the other side of the city.
[Heroine Baihua] took a deep breath and prepared for a life-threatening ride.
Just as she was running downstairs and passed by a high-end-looking car, she heard Guan Hongyan's voice behind her: "Hey, why are you running?"
[The White Flower Heroine] turned back suddenly.
The rear window of the unknown luxury car rolled down, revealing Guan Hongyan's face: "I'll give you a ride. Let's go."
"Guan Hongyan?" she asked in surprise.
"Come on, get in the car," Guan Hongyan waved at her, "We're going to Encounter too, it's on the way."
She really looked like she was planning to go out for dinner. In addition to Guan Hongyan, there were also a few classmates she had met before sitting in the car.
[White Flower Heroine] hesitated for a moment and said, "My tire is not fixed yet. I borrowed my bicycle from my neighbor next door today. I have to return it to her in the evening."
"Then put it in the trunk." Guan Hongyan said as a matter of course.
"Ah?" [White Flower Heroine] was dumbfounded, "But... can I?"
Can bicycles be placed in the trunk of this luxury car?
"Let it go." Guan Hongyan looked very indifferent.
[This car isn’t mine anyway.] She added the second half of the sentence silently in her mind.
The car belongs to the Dark Night Emperor Xuanyuan Huan. The unlucky Cen Bingqi, as the Dark Night Emperor's fiancée imagined by the heroine, gets the transportation support from her fiancé.
Guan Hongyan swore that she didn't laugh, she really didn't laugh.
However, this time, the attempt to run away from the restaurant and go to the cold-blooded young man sounded the alarm in the hearts of all the exploration team members.
Everyone was like Guan Hongyan, trying very hard to have in-depth communication with the heroine, so as to prevent the other party from not understanding them and coming up with more explosive content in their minds.
One cold-blooded young man is enough in a group of exploration team members, there is really no need for a second one.
[The White Flower Heroine] had just stepped into the car when she was stared at by nine pairs of burning eyes inside the car and could not help but take a step back.
What is... happening?
Why are all these students crowded in the same car?
It’s not that there is no room for everyone, after all, this is an extended Mercedes-Benz, but the question is, why do they have to squeeze together?
According to her superficial understanding of the students at Olds Business School, those arrogant rich second-generations would like to have their own car and would not bother to squeeze with others.
"Hello, Weisheng Peiya," the student sitting in the front of the car said solemnly, "It's our first meeting. Let me introduce myself. My name is Xu Zichen. My name has only three characters. I have been an only child since I was young. My family relationship is simple. I abide by the laws and regulations and do not have any fiancée or fiancée. I am single and will remain single in the future."
[White Flower Heroine]:?
Barrage: [? ]
[You kid, you're seeking emergency shelter, right? ]
[A name with only three characters should not be too specific.]
[A negative example of the exploration team members in this world: Cen Bingqi. ]
[Sad, the heroine betrothed him to the Dark Night Emperor. 】
[How to talk to the cold-blooded madman? As the only one with a shining title among the exploration team members, it is reasonable for him to be a pair with the Dark Night Emperor. ]
…
Fortunately, the investors did not hear the butler's explosive words at three or four in the morning yesterday: "The young master hasn't laughed like this for a long time."
Otherwise they might be laughing even louder now.
Bai Jinshu sat in Huai Jiamu's car and asked about the other party's physical condition and social relationships like checking a household registration.
"Do you taste the food you eat?" He looked at me with a burning gaze. "If you don't, it's very troublesome because I can't cook."
Evil God:?
Evil God: “…Yes.”
Okay, Bai Jinshu crossed out a guess on the notebook in his hand: [The president who has never been able to eat satisfactory food since he was a child, and can only regain his sense of taste by eating the food cooked by the heroine]
"Do you have any childhood friend who studies medicine?" he continued to ask.
Huai Jiamu:?
Huai Jiamu: “…No.”
Bai Jinshu crossed out a guess on his notebook: [A neurotic friend who asked his childhood friend who studied medicine to come and see the heroine in the middle of the night]
"Do you have any white moonlight who is unfortunately suffering from leukemia, heart disease, liver disease, kidney disease, and hemophilia?"
Huai Jiamu:!
Huai Jiamu was alert: "No."
Bai Jinshu nodded and crossed out a guess: [There are so many people in the world, but only the terminally ill Bai Yueguang who is 100% compatible with the heroine, the lawless lunatic who digs out his heart, lungs and liver, and the CEO of the crematorium]
"One last question," Bai Jinshu looked at all the contents in the notebook, "Have you ever lost anything important when you were a child, or been saved by a mysterious person of the same age or sex when you were a child?"
Huai Jiamu: ...
Huai Jiamu: “No.”
Bai Jinshu crossed out the last line: [The blind male protagonist who had a fleeting encounter with him when he was a child and had been looking for his savior since he grew up but ended up mistaking him for someone else.]
"Okay, that's all for now," he folded up the list titled [Complete List of Male Characters] in his hand, "If you have any other questions, Yun Tian and Zhang Ying can tell me when they think of them."
This list was the current version of the complete male protagonist character list that the two girls discussed for an entire afternoon. Bai Jinshu asked for it to test Huai Jiamu.
"What's the point of asking this?" the evil god asked blankly.
Bai Jinshu: "Oh, judging from the third male protagonist who you don't know exists or not."
"It seems unfortunate now, but you are probably not the protagonist." He answered sincerely.
Huai Jiamu blinked in confusion: "Why do you think I am?"
In this world, the protagonists all have halos, and that brilliant light can be seen from eight hundred meters away. In this case, can't you tell at a glance whether someone is the protagonist?
"No," Bai Jinshu replied calmly, "I just think what your housekeeper said yesterday was very dangerous. It made me feel like I was in danger."
Now that he knew the evil god was not the protagonist, he felt much more relieved.
After all, if the Dark Night Emperor was the protagonist, he, who was deeply bound to the Dark Night Emperor... would become the heroine.
Being the heroine in a Mary Sue novel is really an explosive thing, and he doesn't want to try it for the time being.
The vehicle stopped steadily in front of the restaurant. Bai Jin said that they arrived a little slower than Guan Hongyan's car. [Bai Hua Heroine] listened to the eight people's self-introductions along the way, got off the car very confused, and arrived in front of the restaurant more than an hour earlier than the estimated end time of 6:30, and parted ways with the eight new classmates.
The waiter who led her out yesterday took her through a staff-only passage to the back kitchen of the restaurant.
When she arrived at her post, her separate workroom had already been opened, and she was led to a very kind-looking kitchen staff, who waved at her and said sincerely, "Good luck."
[White Flower Heroine]:?
Under the other person's sympathetic gaze, she opened the door of the room blankly.
A mountain of onions!
Get out!
【White Flower Heroine】: !!!
"This is your job tonight," the chef said. "The foreman said that if you have nothing else to do, don't come out. Just stay here and peel onions. There's a bucket under the table to hold your tears."
[Heroine Baihua] I feel like I don't quite understand the current situation. Do you high-end restaurants have buckets specifically for tears and mountains of onions taller than a person that need to be peeled every day?
Isn't this a western restaurant?
Could it be that she remembered it wrongly?
Is this an onion-themed restaurant?
The exploration team members who are still in the lobby don’t know that if the heroine’s psychological activities continue to develop, Encounter will become an onion-themed restaurant that is neutral in the underworld. They saw something even more explosive.
It seemed that a certain Dark Night Emperor had something that needed to be dealt with temporarily in the car, so Bai Jinshu got out of the car alone and entered the restaurant first, then walked towards the hall.
Just as he stepped into the hall, a small sphere shining with brilliant light suddenly rushed out from nowhere and hugged his thighs: "Are you my mother's blind date?"
Bai Jinshu:?
The exploration team members behind:?
[White Flower Heroine], cutting onions still can't control your brain? What mess are you thinking about now?
Guan Hongyan opened the book in horror, only to find that the words were still where they were last night.
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Isn’t this child a figment of the imagination of the [White Flower Heroine]?
Everyone in the group was stunned on the spot, and the glowing ball holding Bai Jinshu's calf seemed to be a young boy. Judging from his height and voice, he seemed to be only three or four years old.
He took Bai Jinshu's silence as a tacit agreement, put his hands on his hips and began to criticize very naturally: "Although you don't look very rich, and you don't have bodyguards around you, you are very good-looking. My mother likes to find good-looking people, so it's not impossible."
Bai Jinshu:?
What?
"Did you recognize the wrong person?" He moved his calf.
"No mistake! Baby is not stupid!" the glowing sphere said loudly, "Although I haven't found out what you look like yet, I secretly looked at the chat records between my mother and the blind date yesterday. You said that you were wearing a gray suit and a silver tie of the same color, with a tie clip on your pocket. I can recognize you at a glance."
This sentence is full of loopholes.
What does "I didn't find out what you look like" mean, and what does "I peeked at the chat history between my mother and my blind date" mean.
"I thought you would bring flowers! Why don't you bring flowers to blind dates? I am very satisfied with you as a father, because babies also like good-looking people!" The glowing sphere said confidently, "But you can't woo my mother without flowers! My mother is very popular!"
Bai Jinshu's heart skipped a beat.
"Kid," he picked up the ball of light from the ground with one hand, "Look carefully, I'm only 17."
It is not clear whether Bai Jinshu is 17 or not. Anyway, according to the information in this world, Cen Bingqi, who is only one year in high school, is 17.
"What? I don't believe it!" The little boy was struck by lightning. "You haven't even reached the legal age for marriage yet. You have to be with my mother for three years before you can get married. Forget it. We can just get the marriage certificate right away."
Bai Jinshu:?
The meaning behind these words... is indeed quite subtle.
What he meant was that his parents were divorced, and now his mother was going on blind dates everywhere, and she just wanted to get the marriage certificate right away?
What's going on here?
"What's wrong? Why are you standing at the door?" A familiar voice came from behind. It was Huai Jiamu who got off the car after finishing his business.
"Who is this?" He glanced indifferently at the child in Bai Jinshu's arms, as if he didn't see the bright light on him that was almost blinding everyone.
Bai Jinshu was happy: "He insisted on calling me dad."
Isn’t mom’s blind date dad?
"I didn't yell!" the child was angry. "You are not of legal marriage age, and anyway, you haven't been tested by my mother yet!"
The evil god reacted naturally: "I don't remember having this son."
Child:?
The child became even angrier. He pointed at Bai Jin and said, "You and him are a couple? You actually cheated on me!"
"Get it straight," Bai Jinshu shook him, "you were the first one to bump into me and hug my legs."
The child paused, the fake crying sound instantly disappeared, and he became a little embarrassed: "Uh...it seems so."
The more embarrassing thing is yet to come.
A brighter light source came over from behind the child: "Gu Tiancai? Why are you here?"
The child froze all of a sudden: "Mom...Mommy."
"Sir, I'm sorry, I'm sorry," the woman called Mommy by Gu Tiancai had a very gentle voice. She stepped forward and first apologized to Bai Jinshu and Huai Jiamu, and then expressed very sincerely that she had caused them trouble. It can be seen that she was well-educated.
During the whole process, Gu Tiancai, who had been very self-righteous before, became silent in an instant like a cat seeing a tiger, and was so well-behaved that he was completely different from before.
After apologizing, her mother said very sincerely that she was really sorry for causing trouble to you. She was a single mother who had just returned from abroad and was out to meet a client today. She didn't know why her son always thought she was out for a blind date.
"No...it's okay," Zhang Ying twitched her lips, "Everyone understands."
"Thank you, thank you." The person on the other end thought that they understood the difficulties of being a single mother, so they apologized very sincerely and walked away with their son.
The exploration team members behind me: …
It’s not that I understand how difficult it is to be a single mother.
Everyone was just shocked by the two titles: "Genius Cute Baby" and "Runaway Mommy".
Barrage:
【Thump, thump, thump. 】
[Free Encounter: Plot trigger. 】
[A new protagonist has appeared! How can we stand still? ]
["The CEO's Sweet Wife Runs with the Baby: The Genius Baby is Three and a Half Years Old" right? 】
[I've learned too many things. I've messed up all the knowledge in this world! ]
[I am so upset, how come your version of "Romance Contagion" has a 3rd episode! ]
[Who on earth caught up from 1 to 3 and gave this author the opportunity to write a sequel...]
[Who are you? Don't let me catch you! ]
The author has something to say:
This is what a genius hacker baby is like. If you don't like it, don't play with it.
Wang:?
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