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wang-meng · 2 months
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whumpily-ever-after · 4 months
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Sand Sea (Tomb of the Sea) Whump List
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Summary: When high school student Li Cu is attacked, a map is carved into his back and he is then kidnapped by a man named Wu Xie. Li Cu is forced to go on a journey to a forbidden tomb and thrust into a long-running conflict where he has to play a vital role if he wants to come out alive.
Genre: Action, adventure, mystery, supernatural
Country: China
Year: 2018
Watch it on: Viki, YouTube
Spoilers ahead...
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Whumpee: Li Cu played by Wu Lei (Leo Wu)
Episode 1: Disoriented, struggling to stand, chased, yelling in frustration and fear, says he was kidnapped, (flashback to before the kidnapping) manhandled, locked in a closet, scared, slides down the wall, crying, begging to be let out, released when he gives in to his father’s demands; a mysterious black form enters his forehead, knocked out of his seat, holding his head in pain; attacked on the street, a hand placed over his mouth, pushed against a wall, calling for help, strangled, holding his throat, coughing, knocked out, falls to the ground, has something carved into his back, rushed to the hospital; in a hospital bed, wakes up in pain, struggles to walk, horrified at the sight of his back, crying, kidnapped from the hospital
Episode 2: Manhandled, yelling in pain, wounds on his back reopened, passed out; told he has to go to the desert with the people who kidnapped him, wincing in pain
Episode 3: Forced to go down into tunnels even though he is claustrophobic
Episode 4: Scared; dragged over a cliff, saved
Episode 5: Knife held to the back of his neck
Episode 6: Scared; panics; struggling to breathe, holding his neck, falls to the ground, passes out
Episode 7: Falls down a cliff, unconscious; told he is hallucinating due to claustrophobia; hanging over a cavern with one person holding on to him
Episode 9: Stranded in the desert with no food or water
Episode 10: Caught in a sandstorm; weak from dehydration, stumbling, collapses, passes out
Episode 11: Flashback to when he was attacked; nightmare
Episode 12: Arm cut with a cleaver (x3), wincing in pain
Episode 13: Punched in the face, bloody nose
Episode 14: Punched in the face, falls to the ground, eyes go black, in a fight, at knifepoint, manhandled (being held back), chased, drowning
Episode 15: Knocked to the ground by a giant root; scared, chased (by a root monster thing); groaning in pain, says it’s his back
Episode 16: Forced to sleep; tied with rope, hanging from a crane, dropped to the ground, grunting in pain, grabbed around the ankle by a root, dragged, grabbed around the waist, pulled back, saved
Episode 17: Gun pointed to the side of his head; complaining about his back hurting; groaning in pain (from his back)
Episode 18: Pulled down by his ankle, choked, rescued, bitten by a snake, has a vision of the past; made to stand in various poses that make his back hurt; falls from scaffolding, nearly falls into a mine shaft
Episode 19: Pain in his hand, passes out, has a vision, wakes with a gasp
Episode 20: Wakes up in a hospital bed, flashback to him unconscious on a gurney, grabs his head, says he doesn’t remember what happened to him; hit in the back, falls to the ground, kicked repeatedly
Episode 21: Gets his hand stuck in a dummy, in pain
Episode 22: Nearly abducted, saved
Episode 31: Flashback to some of the traumatic things he encountered
Episode 32: Hallucinating; bit by things in a lake, yelling in pain
Episode 33: Drugged, knocked into a lake
Episode 34: Grabbed by the ankle, dragged off by the snake tree; helped to stand
Episode 36: Thrown across the room, groaning in pain, caught in an explosion, knocked unconscious, blood on his head; coughing up blood
Episode 37: Groaning in pain, has an injured leg, covered in blood, captured, bitten by a snake, has a vision, held in down, grabbed by his shirt collar
Episode 38: Forced to go with his enemies, carried on someone’s back; at knifepoint, kicked in the chest (while sitting), falls into a mine cart, groaning in pain, manhandled, captor steps on his bad leg, breathing heavily, grabbed by the hair, captor threatens to break his back, grabbed by the back of his shirt; forced to walk on his bad leg, manhandled
Episode 39:  Helped to walk (but not in a friendly way), in pain; limping, falls unconscious after making eye contact with a snake; limping, knocked onto his back by a dog
Episode 40: Helped to walk, pushed to the ground, grabbing his leg in pain, punched in the face; pushed to the ground, straddled, crossbow pointed at his face, crossbow pushed into his injured leg, grunting in pain
Episode 41: Caught in an explosion, passes out; wakes up back with his captors, half dragged, half carried
Episode 42: Weak, carried on someone’s back, helped to stand, drugged
Episode 43: Wakes up in a strange place, IV in his arm, cast on his leg, collapses, passes out
Episode 44: Held down, drugged
Episode 46: Gun pointed to the back of his head, forced to read a bunch of snake pheromones, grunting in pain, shaking
Episode 48: In a fight, knocked to the floor bleeding from the mouth; forced to read more pheromones, sick, slides down a wall
Episode 50: Shot with a dart, passes out; used as a human shield, gun pointed to his neck
Episode 51: Shot at, chased, hiding; crying, sees his friend die in front of him; chased, shot at
Episode 52: Shot at, in a fight; kicked through a wall (kind of), nearly stabbed, thrown out a window; carried on Wu Xie’s back, blood on his head; wakes up alone on a train, bandage on his head, arm in a cast; reunited with his friends, crying
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Whumpee: Wu Xie played by Qin Hao
Episode 2: (In a story) blood on his face, in a fight
Episode 6: Threatened with a knife
Episode 7:  Falls down a cliff; hanging over a cavern with two people holding on to him, falls, trapped
Episode 8: Threatened
Episode 9:  Stranded in the desert with no food or water
Episode 10: Caught in a sandstorm; held at knife-point; weak from dehydration, stumbling, collapses
Episode 12: Infected by a worm, tied up (for his protection); has the worm cut out of him, passes out; holding his side
Episode 14: Gun pointed to the side of his head, at knifepoint, manhandled (being held back), chased
Episode 15: Root grabs him by the ankle, dragged through sand
Episode 18: Bit by a snake; in a trance
Episode 19: In a trance, asked to be tied up
Episode 36: (Flashback) bitten by a snake
Episode 39: Drives his car off a mountain
Episode 40: Attacked, in a fight, falls off a cliff
Episode 42: Caught in a blizzard
Episode 45: Passed out, carried on someone’s back
Episode 50: Poisoned, falls to his back, left for dead
Episode 51: Unconscious, woken up, helped to sit; shot at
Episode 52: In a fight, kicked in the chest; crying
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Whumpee: Su Wan played by Wang Hao Xuan
Episode 3: Kicked into a room with no floor, hanging from (bamboo?) scaffolding; locked in a room
Episode 7: Believes Li Cu is dead, crying
Episode 8: Kind of kidnapped
Episode 9:  Being watched, chased, saved
Episode 26: Lightly manhandled; tied to a chair, gagged (with a hand then packing tape), gets free, chased, punched in the face, bloody nose, caught, held in place, strangled (with a rope), rescued; bitten by a snake, falls unconscious, carried on a friend’s back, bleeding from the nose
Episode 27: In a hospital bed
Episode 28: In a hospital bed, bandage on his neck
Episode 33: Drugged, knocked into a lake
Episode 34: Bit by something, yelling in pain, given a shot; helped to walk; complaining that he doesn’t feel good, knocked across the room by a giant snake, passes out
Episode 36: Unconscious, carried on someone’s back, blood on his face
Episode 38: Chased
Episode 39:  Unconscious after jumping off a cliff, weak, helped to sit
Episode 40: Trapped in a pit
Episode 41: Trapped in a pit, weak
Episode 42: Stuck in a collapsing cave
Episode 52: Crying
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Whumpee: Yang Hao played by Zhu Jian
Episode 3: Kicked into a room with no floor, hanging from (bamboo?) scaffolding; locked in a room
Episode 9: Being watched, chased, saved
Episode 27: Hits himself on the head with a brick, blood running down the side of his head
Episode 33: Drugged, knocked into a lake
Episode 40: Manipulated into believing his friend betrayed him; knocked over, told he is worth nothing, bullied
Episode 41: On the ground, forced onto his back, punched in the face; caught in an explosion; falls underground, blood on his face
Episode 42: Face covered in blood, worried about Li Cu
Episode 43: Discovers his grandmother passed away while he was gone, crying
Episode 44: Emotional pain
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difeisheng · 6 months
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shoutout to li cu for truly capturing the mix of self-assuredly perceptive plus laughably overconfident to the point of cringe that is being chronically 18. few teenage protagonists i've seen in recent memory have actually gotten it right in such a visceral way, but li cu is out here making the most unhinged calculated decisions while Also being a complete fucking dumbass. what a compelling little guy i wanna dropkick him into the sun
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Li cu: So, what, now I'm just supposed to do anything Wu Xie does? I mean, what if he jumped off a cliff?
Hei Xiazi: If Wu Xie were to jump off a cliff, he would've done their due diligence regarding the height of the cliff, the depth of the water, and the angle of entry, so yes. If you see Wu Xie jump off a cliff, by all means, jump off a cliff.
Li Cu: You jump off a cliff!
Hei Xiazi: Gladly, he's probably jumping to chase after me.
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fan-man-huaisang · 1 year
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lintares · 1 month
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[Art] Total simp
There's a life outside of Wang compound, there's other things than being a child soldier (being a shifter and a basic bitch for example).
It's an illustration of a wonderful fic by @justawanderingbabbit and I think everybody needs to read it. Also - notes at the end of each chapter are so fun to read!
(I'm not good with writing long comments even for the fics I like so much so instead I do what I can xD)
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sunriseverse · 5 months
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what do you think would be li cu's reaction to seeing the iron triangle all together for the first time?
me? writing something under 1k for the first time in months? apparently! not sure if this fulfils what you were looking for, but i hope you like it! (also thank you for letting me indulge in my emotions about these horrid little fictional characters.)
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He wakes with a sputtering gasp, lungs burning and eyesight swimming, hard rock at his back and the memory of darkness pressing against him. It’s still dark, but no longer that all-encompassing blackness of the caves, no longer starless and starlost, no longer stagnant air that hadn’t been touched by human breath in its entire existence, the thrill of terror keeping him going deeper, deeper, deeper into its depths. Instead, now, before he even stops wheezing, there are hands on him, steady and sure, and a voice murmuring something he’s too out of it to hear, but just conscious enough to recognise, with a stroke of startlement that cleaves him in two, of anger. Without thinking about it, he’s struggling out of the grasp, shrugging off those hands even before he can draw a full breath into his lungs, before he has any sense of direction.
“—hey! Easy, easy,” Wu Xie is saying, sitting back on his haunches, his hands up in what must be an attempt to show he’s no threat, even though both of them know that’s patently untrue, has been untrue, will be untrue forever, because Li Cu knows him, knows this man, the width and breadth of what he will do with a smile on his face. “You scared us pretty bad.”
Feeling more than a little vindictive, Li Cu spits the last of the water from his lungs in Wu Xie’s direction. It doesn’t hit, because right now he feels colt-weak and unsteady, and his vision is only just now starting to merge from the doubling that has been plaguing him. It’s enough that he notices the other figures hovering around him—Yang Hao unhappily fiddling with the oxygen tank, which has a noticeable dent in it, though it hadn’t ruptured, and Su Wan chewing on his nails and looking anxious. There’s also two other men, one of them whom Li Cu vaguely recognises as Wang Pangzi, and the other one, who hangs back at a distance, clad in dark clothes and looking like he could disappear into a crowd even with his striking features, who must, by sense, be that third member of the Iron Triangle—Zhang Qiling. He drags his hand across his mouth and attempts to regroup. “What’s he doing here,” he demands.
Su Wan starts guiltily; shoves his hands into his pockets. “When we lost contact with you, I called for help.”
“Fucking Wu Xie?”
“No, Hei-ye,” Yang Hao says, and at least he has the decency to look irritated about it. “Fucked off to Russia or something, I don’t know. Said he’d send someone, since the biometrics we had on you hadn’t gone red yet.”
“And a good thing, too,” Pangzi says, ambling closer, and crouches down next to Wu Xie; slings an arm over his shoulder. Wu Xie relaxes into the touch, a half-smile flitting across his face, seemingly on instinct. “Our Tianzhen would have been devastated if you died. And not even in a tomb!”
“Pangzi,” Wu Xie says, and he sounds slightly pained. He hasn’t tried to reach out to Li Cu again—good. Li Cu struggles to his feet, makes it about one step and then has to stop, breathing far too heavily to be comfortable. Twin sets of hands find him, but this time, they’re a welcome touch. Their hands are warm through the fabric of his diving gear. “You’re lucky you didn’t get far into the caves,” Wu Xie says, and there’s something like worry in his gaze, and Li Cu hates it, vicious and sudden. “You could have died.”
“Then you should have let me,” Li Cu shoots back, too tired to care to censor himself. This one thing, this one thing, is where he was never supposed to have to be reminded of Wu Xie again, and now he’s gone and put himself in it again.
Wu Xie rears back as if struck. “You don’t mean that.”
“You should have just ignored the call,” Li Cu continues, ignoring Su Wan’s quiet, pained, Ya Li!. “Let nature run its course.” It’s unfair, maybe, but at the moment, Li Cu doesn’t really care all that much. Normally, he’d at least try and skirt civility, but at the moment, the thought is unappetising. He’s tired, and his head hurts, and he should have died there, in the dark, and been at peace with it. Instead, here he is, still alive, because of Wu Xie, who’s never been able to let him die, even if it would have been kinder.
“I don’t want you dead,” Wu Xie says, lips pursed into a thin line, looking almost pained.
I wish you did, Li Cu thinks, bitterly. “It would have saved us both a lot of trouble,” he says, instead. His breathing is better, now, and he can no longer taste that bitterness at the back of his throat.
Wu Xie looks like he wants to argue, but he doesn’t. It’s strange, how much more expressive Wu Xie is, now. In the desert, he’d always kept his emotions carefully hidden behind the gently-smiling persona he’d constructed for himself. Now he doesn’t need it anymore, he’s shed it like a snakeskin, and Li Cu doesn’t recognise the man underneath. He lets himself lean into Su Wan and Yang Hao’s touch, and says, “You can go now. I’m fine.”
Wu Xie hesitates for a moment; turns to glance behind him. The other man, Zhang Qiling, has drawn closer, and he tilts his head at Wu Xie, a silent question, though for what, Li Cu doesn’t know. Pangzi’s lips twitch, and he bumps Wu Xie’s shoulder with his own. “Hot pot for dinner?” he offers.
Wu Xie glances at Li Cu, again, and for a moment, Li Cu has the horrible sense that he’s going to be asked to join. Thankfully, Wu Xie seems to think better of it, which is good, considering that Li Cu doesn’t know what he might have done, had Wu Xie offered it. He still doesn’t have a good, cohesive set of emotions towards Wu Xie—it’s all muddied waters, foggy jade. Instead, he shrugs. “Only if you don’t steal half of my mushrooms,” he says, and then to Li Cu, “maybe stay away from caves for a bit. Xiao Hua keeps complimenting me about my new hobbies.”
“Then you shouldn’t have given me that credit card,” Li Cu shoots back. It had been less given and more shown up in the mail with no return address. Still, it has its uses. He might have a complicated tangle of feelings about Wu Xie, but he won’t say no to money, which is the least of what he deserves. 
Rather than answer, Wu Xie laughs, eyes crescents and crows-footed at the edges. The familiar spark of anger in Li Cu’s gut flares, and he considers saying something, before he realises that, at this point, it’ll probably just make Wu Xie laugh more. He doesn’t know how to interact with this man who Wu Xie has become, nor is he particularly happy about it—it’s harder to be angry at a man who barely resembles the one who’d rubbed ashes into his open wounds, who glows like the moon in the presence of the other two thirds of the Iron Triangle. Instead, he watches him turn and amble towards Zhang Qiling, Pangzi at his side. His lungs shouldn’t burn anymore, the liquid all expelled, but they still do, as if set aflame. He coughs a couple of times to try and dislodge the sensation to no avail. “Did you cancel our hotel booking?”
“No, just extended it,” Su Wan says. “Hao-ge didn’t want to pay the cancellation fee.”
“Only because your pockets aren’t bottomless,” Yang Hao says. “If I wasn’t looking out for you, you’d run yourself into bankruptcy.” His tosses his arm over Li Cu’s shoulders, hand extending to tug at Su Wan’s ear, who gives a quiet yelp of surprise. “Plus, they have an all-day buffet. It would be a waste of money.”
“Ya Li,” Su Wan whines, and—it’s not perfect, the simmering anger and helplessness is still there, beneath his skin, raw from seeing Wu Xie again, but this helps. Li Cu laughs at him, and lets himself settle, slowly, back into familiarity.
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bronze-mirrors · 3 months
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silver lining
Relationships: Li Cu & Wu Xie, Su Nan & Wu Xie
Summary:
Li Cu and Wu Xie have some fun, bonding tomb adventures in space. Li Cu wants it noted that he is an unwilling participant in all this.
written for the for the lunar new year exchange! @dmbjexchange
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lunarriviera · 6 months
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沙海 | Shā Hǎi | Sand Sea [2018]
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scaredysap · 11 months
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More Pangzi week art, this time featuring his husband’s eldest son (aka my perfect boy), Li Cu
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alxina · 1 year
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I was idly going through a few Ultimate Note episodes and then I landed at the scene in the cave with Xiao Hua and Wu Xie after they had been attacked by the bugs trapped in the corpses. And Wu Xie is sitting on the ground with a gaping wound on his elbow, where we can still see a large worm sticking out.
The conversation at this point is purely to allow Xiao Hua to pull the bug out with his tweezers and Wu Xie being an absolute wuss about it, which, let's be fair, is harrowing enough for anyone who is new to the tomb raiding world. Now, Wu Xie's not exactly new to this, but he's not so used to it as to be completely desensitised to the gross aspects of it, and pain is always a powerful motivator. So, Wu Xie has all the right in the world to flinch and look away as Xiao Hua tricks him into answering a question as he yanks the bug out of the wound.
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But what struck me suddenly was that an almost parallel of this scene exists in Tomb of the Sea episodes 12-3, where Wu Xie is cavalierly dissecting corpses and being a little too knife-happy (or should I say, cleaver-happy, since he was wielding a cleaver for the autopsy and then proceeded to wipe it off on his sleeve and use that same blade on Li Cu's arm, RIP Li Cu). He shows no response to either the matter of the death or slicing up human bodies to find out the cause behind their deaths. If someone's only introduction to Wu Xie is during this moment in Tomb of the Sea, then they would absolutely not be able to imagine that a man who flinched at the sight of bugs sticking out of an open wound is the same man who is coldly conducting these ad hoc autopsies in the desert and has no qualms about using the same blade on himself when Li Cu finds himself unable to cut Wu Xie open the way he's asking him to.
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This is what I find utterly fascinating about this franchise. It treats character growth and transformation in such a wonderfully real way, which is not always linear; and instead of plotting a straight line of a character's trajectory, it has these little rest stops in the middle of adaptations where it's possible to take stock of what we already know about these characters and work them into what is currently happening to them.
If you think about it, it's a proper multiverse franchise, almost a garden of forking paths if you will, where each adaptation traces what happens to a character once they step into a certain passageway, with completely different possibilities stretching out in front of them with respect to their individual character arcs and actions (not unlike fanworks, but I won't digress here).
Coming back to the two scenes: it offers such a nice little parallel with Xiao Hua and Wu Xie, and then Wu Xie and Li Cu, with their positions vis a vis each other, and also ties in the whole narrative of tomb raiding being an inherently inherited business. I say, inherited, because not unlike closed cliques where proteges are trained to master the skills of their mentors, the tomb raiding world transmits knowledge only through hands-on experience and tutelage.
While Xiao Hua and Wu Xie are technically the same age when they met in UN, Xiao Hua's experience as leader of the Xie clan marks him out to be the field senior, and despite not being part of active field missions, Xiao Hua still has more experience than Wu Xie at this point, which is apparent in the first scene.
From there to the stone-cold Wu Xie of Tomb of the Sea is certainly a trip, and to fans of the franchise, it opens up the weight of what Wu Xie has had to go through in order to become this person, while to casual viewers, makes Wu Xie appear a riveting enough character who fills in the proverbial 'hot cold boss' role with panache.
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sleepingobsidian · 10 months
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Wu Xie: I know you snuck out last night, Li Cu
Su Wan: Play dumb!
Li Cu: Who's Li Cu?
Su Wan: NOT THAT DUMB!!!
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difeisheng · 2 months
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something some of you don't know is that in the sha hai novel, li cu and liang wan kiss after one of the times they run from danger on the second gutongjing trip, which would feel like a weirdly forced het romance being shoehorned in if it was under literally any other circumstances EXCEPT. it's such a deeply cringefail experience to the point that it works. li cu is too stunned to do anything except lie there uselessly while it happens because he's an 18-year-old who's had zero past relationship prospects. liang wan is clearly on the verge of a nervous breakdown. according to li cu's brain the kiss lasts a full three minutes, and yang hao and su wan are standing right there watching in silence the entire time. once she pushes away from him liang wan yells at the boys to fuck off, tries to walk away, and immediately trips over into one of the haizi. none of this is mentioned or followed up on at any future point in the story. npss just chose a hilariously awkward scenario for a kiss to happen and it's so thoroughly embarrassing for all the characters present that it turns out great, i could not be irritated even if i wanted to
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randomtwinkinthetomb · 3 months
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Pangzi: What do we say when making bread?
Li cu: *glumly* That's the dough rising.
Pangzi: And what do we NOT say?
Li Cu: *sadly* That's the yeast fucking.
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fan-man-huaisang · 1 year
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