Chapter 29 Who is the trick?(1/2)
Chapter 29 Who was trapped?
"Let's go back." Ye Ying immediately turned around and ran back when he heard my words. This time we stopped landing and walked directly in the air. Ye Ying and the black magic flames on me pulled out a long black line in the sky, but no one was concerned about this line at this time.
General Wu passed the orders forward through a large communication machine. "Don't be in chaos in the front army, continue to rush forward. Aisinger is fine for the time being."
The cavalry who received the order immediately regained their murderous aura, and it was even stronger than before. Since you used these infantry as bait to attract our attention, we could not get nothing, and even if they were hung up, we would swallow the bait. We would not keep these cannons and soldiers.
The explosion on Aisinger's side was not actually hit Aisinger, but a small accident. RB's shell hit his own people's suicide personnel, which caused a big explosion. At that time, these people were less than 300 meters away from Aisinger's thruster, which immediately attracted Aisinger's attention. Now a large number of soldiers have rushed out of the city and are fighting with those suicide bombers, hoping to stop them from blowing up Aisinger's crawler thruster.
In addition to Bombs, there are many RB players and NPCs who rushed to the city. These are the death squads who are the protectors of Bombs. Their mission is to guard Bombs to reach the bottom of the thruster. RB players have spared no effort to deal with our Aisinger. You should know that Aisinger's significance is quite complicated now.
If the Divine Mist Wind Chime is not broken, Esinger is a secret weapon, and it is no big deal. However, the Divine Mist Wind Chime was shocked, which led to Esinger being directly exposed to everyone's eyes. The huge and powerful Aisinger has established an unforgettable monument for everyone in China. Its ideological significance is far greater than actual combat ability. This is the same for the RB people. Such a large floating on the battlefield without falling into the city, the RB people are half short as soon as they come up, and their morale is unimaginable. For these ideological factors, the RB players must destroy Esinger. No matter what the price they pay, it must be like this, and we also pay any price to protect Esinger.
When I returned to the vicinity of Aisinger, most of her body was already on the sea. Just move forward a little more and you can start the suspension system and fly. As long as you leave the land, it will be safe. Everyone below knows this, so they all rushed towards Aisinger like they took aphrodisiacs.
"Don't let them get closer." I rode Ye Ying and fell down directly. After releasing Ye Yue, I quickly participated in the defense battle.
A rb man rushed towards the nearest propulsion track, and the distance between him and the track was less than thirty meters. I landed directly in front of him and jumped off Ye Ying, and Ye Ying attacked other enemies by himself. I cut down the guy in front of me with a sword. Ye Ying rushed to another enemy and suddenly kicked backwards. The guy flew backwards immediately. While he was still in the air, Ye Ying's head flashed with a single horn on his head. The guy suddenly exploded in the air, and the shock wave shocked down a large number of people nearby. The rb man knew the size of Aisinger. They understood that the amount of explosives would not hurt a behemoth like Aisinger, so everyone carried a large amount of high-end explosives on his body. And some people used the ground red-patterned magic crystal bomb for a high price.
The shelling along the way had already caused Aisinger's thruster to be scarred. Now he was shocked by the power of the explosives and was even more severely damaged. Fortunately, it was a big guy after all, and the strength was still very good. Ye Yue suddenly pointed at me behind and shouted: "Over there, hurry up. Master."
As soon as I turned around, I saw a guy less than twenty meters away from the track. Even if he detonated so close, he had a certain destructive power. But there was nothing he could do. It was too late to chase him, so I just used his hand to hit him. The Avengers shot out a row of rain arrows. This time, there was no mistake. I would like to knock him down with a shotgun.
The rainstorm arrows exploded, and the distance was not far from it. The guy was instantly hit by a large area and was knocked to the ground. But I said that this thing was not powerful enough. The guy insisted on getting up and continued to stagger towards the track.
"Half Month." I pointed ahead, and I immediately left and flew out.
The guy saw the half moon that I ejaculated. He suddenly ran forward a few steps and hugged the base plate of the crawler thruster. I was afraid that half moon would hurt the crawler, so when I twisted the line, I actually wiped the edge and cut off one of his calfs. This guy grabbed the gap of the crawler and was carried up. According to the rotation trend of the crawler, he would definitely take him to the crawler. Could this guy still want to blow up our core equipment?
I spread my wings and flew over immediately. The Avengers shot a row of arrows in my hand and shot the guy's body into a hedgehog. The Avenger's continuous shooting ability was still very good. The guy insisted on being taken to the top of the track, and I had already rushed to not far from him. He struggled and turned over to look at me and smiled, then his arm suddenly broke the rope on his body. He hung it before the explosion. But the bomb didn't care about these things. It was still burning.
I couldn't care about that much, so I rushed up and grabbed the guy and lifted his body. A black hole appeared beside me. It was the entrance to the Phoenix Dragon Space. Although the Phoenix Dragon Space could not contain enemies, the body was not a human being. I threw the body directly into it, and then the Phoenix Dragon appeared beside me. Before the Phoenix Dragon Space could close the body, it exploded in the air. The power of the super bomb was indeed extraordinary. Fortunately, I threw it into the Phoenix Dragon Space. The space in the Phoenix Dragon Space was very huge, and this power would not destroy the space. However, because the entrance of the cave was not closed, a lot of the explosion was sprayed out from the entrance of the cave and blown me a big blow.
"Huh! I'm almost done."
As soon as I took a breath, Yeyue pointed at me and shouted: "There is another one over there."
This time it was really too late. When I stretched out my head and looked at me, I saw a guy on the side of the track below, smiled at me with a big bag of things and jumped into the gap between the two wheels in the middle section of the track. The huge metal wheel continued to move forward without any sense, pressing the brave guy into mud, and then the detonating crystal was crushed, and a loud bang squirted out with the flames.
I only saw a ball of flame rushing towards me and was taken away. The metal fragments flew in various ways. A huge metal guide wheel actually left the bearing and rolled out on its own. The track instantly collapsed from the middle end into two sections. The wheel behind it fell into the ground because it could not touch the track. The huge drag force made the wheel shaft bend into an arc.
The powerful impact force lifted me up on Aisinger's base plate, and after the body stopped, I began to fall again. Then I heard another explosion. A crawler thruster rotated and broke away from the main body and fell down. Someone actually broke the support shaft. How much explosive did Xiao RB tie on his body?
I spread my wings and glided all the way, and took a bomber to throw him into the air. There was a rope in my hand. The guy flew out seven or eight meters with smoke and then exploded in the air, but the distance was too far away and did not cause any damage. Suddenly, another explosion was heard in front of me, a thruster collapsed, and large pieces of metal fragments flew everywhere. Unfortunately, I was beaten up and was knocked down from the air.
The bottom exit of Aisinger suddenly opened for no reason, and two small black and white things fell out. It was auspicious. The two pandas came and fell down the two RB players. Then they got up and chased the bombers. I finally understood what they were doing. These two invincible lucky stars are the nemesis of anything.
Sure enough, a bomber had already climbed onto the thruster but kept pulling the detonating rope no matter what. The rope was wrapped around the fixed rope on the clothes. The guy was so anxious that he couldn't pull it. Jixiang rode on the guy's body and showed his claws of more than an inch long, and grabbed the guy's face. As a result, the guy screamed and came out of the thruster, and was dealt with by the guards who rushed to the ground behind him.
As soon as I landed, I saw Ruyi running over and pulling my legs and pointing to the distance. When I saw that three bombers were almost running to the edge of the thruster. And the people around us were blocked by the other party's security personnel. Ruyi pointed at herself and pointed at the other side, and I immediately understood that, and turned into a werewolf form and grabbed Ruyi and threw him over like a bomb. Fortunately, the distance was not far, Ruyi was really fat, and I almost threw it in a werewolf form.
The three guys were running away in a daze, and suddenly they found a black and white furry object flying over. The guy in the middle was smashed directly. Then Ruyi jumped up and bit the guy next to him, gently pulled it and then immediately turned around and ran away. The guy with the lead was pulled out of the way and wanted to destroy the explosives. But it was too late. The two guys next to him were stumbled and wanted to open the distance, afraid of detonating the bomb on his body, but they were all futile.
After a blast, two more sounds were heard. The explosion shock wave was very large, but because the distance was a little larger, the thruster next to it did not suffer much damage. The destructive power of pure detonation bombs without fragments was very related to the distance. Every time the distance doubled, the power dropped by 50%. It is completely different from the explosion of the bomb directly and the distance ten meters away.
After solving three enemies, Ruyi raised her paws and kept comparing a long object towards me. Then she made a move to make a sound. The meaning was very obvious, and she wanted to reward her. And she pointed out that she wanted to eat chicken legs. This guy would have to turn into a ball when eating. Pandas all chew bamboo. Why do our pandas love to eat chicken so much?
"Boss! Stop him."
I was looking at Ruyi, and someone suddenly called me behind me. When I turned around, I saw an RB ninja running over in front of me with a large bag of explosives. Damn? I was a living person standing here and pretending that I didn’t exist. I flew up and grabbed this guy’s bag. With a force on my waist, I pulled the guy back back. The werewolf form strength increased by 300%, and my arms became much longer, making it much more convenient to catch people.
The ninja ran very fast, but unfortunately he lacked attack power. I pulled him back and smashed his facial bones with a heavy punch. His whole face fell. He lifted it up and pinched his head and twisted it. He snapped it and broke his cervical spine. He pulled the bomb on this guy's body and threw him into the middle of the RB bombers in front. Boom, an explosion detonated several nearby people. The shock wave lifted one of our people out, hitting the track next to him and bounced back. I reached out and caught a person who was blown away.
"Thank you, President." The man caught finally escaped his life by chance.
I patted him on the shoulder: "Go up and ask the people of the Selatis tribe to come down and help. Their energy weapons should be more useful than us."
"Yes." The player immediately fired a hook to the entrance above and climbed up.
"Boss, there is one more over there." A player across the street shouted to me.
I glanced at the direction he pointed, and shouted to him, "There is one behind you, too."
The members over there looked back in confusion and found a bomber who rushed forward helplessly. The RB people rushed towards Aisinger like crazy. We were really exhausted. The left one blocked the right one and came up again. I was in great trouble.
After killing this target, I killed three more guys one after another. Suddenly I found another enemy approaching the thruster and was about to catch him. Suddenly, a blue light bullet shot from above my head, and the guy exploded with a bang. As soon as I looked up, I saw more than a dozen Selatis warriors wearing yellow armor standing at the cabin door. They quickly jumped off from above. The huge weapons more than one meter long in their hands were actually very similar to large machine guns, but the shooting speed of this thing was like a rifle, and it was very inflexible. Fortunately, it was a long-range weapon and it was powerful enough. It was very suitable for dealing with the current situation.
More than 200 soldiers came down from the cabin door above, and their energy guns helped us a lot. Many bombers were shot by their energy bombs dozens of meters away. Moreover, because a large number of energy weapons were concentrated together, the defect of the rate of fire was made up for, and with our warriors, they basically blocked most of the enemies. At least there would be no more thrilling shots!
After the Selatis people joined, Aisinger finally drove into the sea. But at this moment, a shell suddenly flew over and landed among the three Selatis people and lifted them out. We rushed over and helped them up. These members of the Selatis people were very precious. It was a pity to die. The low reproductive ability of this race is really a huge problem. Fortunately, the Selatis people also knew that their people were very precious, so the protection was done very well. The shell actually shocked all three people and caused no casualties. But in just one gap, three bombers ran over to the next.
I handed over the Selatis people beside me to the players next to me, spread my wings and flew to chase the bomber in front of me. I was flying and suddenly heard the howling of a savage from behind. When I turned around, I saw Jixiang's fat claws grabbing a cable hanging from the ground, swinging like a jungle Mount Tai, while flying in his mouth, he was still learning the howling of a Mount Tai. Is this guy too barbaric?
Seeing Jixiang's route, I quickly flashed. He swung from the side and threw away the rope in the air and then fell on one of the bombers. It was really his! I commanded two and a half months to roll towards the enemy. The two bombers on the other side buried their heads without looking back, using the water escape technique to run forward.
Banyue cut off the guy's head on the right with a slammed airflow, but the one on the left was off! When Banyue came back to attack again, the guy had already swam into the thruster. Boom. A track board flew out and knocked me out. After falling into the water, I was shocked all over the stars. The ground guide wheels on the thruster all broke out from the bearing and fell out, and then made a loud noise.
The people inside Aisinger only felt the whole city shake violently, and a dull loud noise came from the entire battlefield. Then I watched with my own eyes several huge supports twisted and deformed in front of me.
“Oh no, the number of propulsion tracks is not enough to support the city’s weight.”
The huge Aisinger moaned and began to tilt in front of everyone. The entire thruster system near the left was deformed. The city was tilted to one side. The huge bottom suddenly hit. I rolled and crawled and flew up again to grab Jixiang and quickly left. The city was pressing down.
I contacted Rose with my wedding ring. "The thruster under the city is over. Let everyone grab the things, and the city is about to touch the ground. Also, close all the thrusters on the right and take back all the support frames. In this way, tilt it will crush the armor plate at the corner."
"knew."
The huge Aisinger collapsed at a slow speed. A corner of the city first crashed into the sea. Then one side hit the sea surface, and millions of tons of sea water were pushed to the coast, instantly rushing all the people near Aisinger to the ground. The 50-meter-high wave rushed us out with a rush of sea. No one could gain a foothold in such a place.
The waves rushed to the shore, and the troops of both sides of the war could not escape, and were all swept out by the sea water. The waves rushed out for more than ten kilometers in one breath before stopping and slowly retreating into the sea. Those who were originally washed away were brought back by the water. Although the waves were large, they were just water after all, and the game was not more realistic. Players' defenses were relatively high, and there were not many deaths, and almost everyone was injured. However, the situation is relatively chaotic now. Everyone has no camp, and so many people were scattered on a messy beach, where there were everything, enemies, allies, and many things in the sea.
Matsumoto Masaga climbed onto a large rock with a crab on his head. The sea water around him was slowly retreating. Although he looked a little embarrassed, he was still smiling reluctantly because he saw the huge land Aisinger standing in the sea, with the hole under the foundation wall at the horizontal plane, pouring water into it.
The place where Aisinger stopped was not very deep. The strait is not very deep, not to mention that the foundation layer of Aisinger is 400 meters high, and the possibility of being submerged is not high. The coast at this location is now inclined, and the city wall near the center of the strait is 150 or 60 meters of water. On the other side, it is close to the beach, and it has just gone down 30 meters. However, because there are many holes in the city wall here, the sea water is still more than one meter above the entrance of the city wall, and the sea water is pouring into the city.
The foundation layer of Aisinger was in chaos, the ground had become a small river, and the sea water was still pouring hard, and players were busy looking for things to plug the loopholes. The city is now tilted, and if it is not easy to block this side, it won't take long for the other city to be filled with sea water!
I ran back to Aisinger in a panic. A few minutes later, three colorful smoke signal flares rose above the city, and the guild army below quickly began to run towards the city. Although most of the people were injured, it was not the time to take into account these injuries. Everyone was desperately approaching the city. We began to use the old method again, dispatching Zerg fortresses and air cavalry to help our people run away.
Matsumoto Masahiro was not anxious to see Aisinger stop. They were also in a mess and had to reorganize before the war could start again. Now he had time. As long as Aisinger did not return to Kyushu Island, he would not have to worry about encirclement and suppression of Aisinger.
The people on both sides tacitly stopped attacking each other. Everyone was busy quickly returning to their own people to gather. Aisinger was still sank in the sea water, but fortunately the hole had been blocked. There was a waterproof door from Atlantis at the bottom of the city. So water would not enter the thruster entrance. I really had no luck thinking about this problem at the beginning, otherwise there would be really trouble today! However, although the leak was blocked in time, hundreds of tons of sea water had been flooded in the city, and there were still a lot of fish, shrimps and other fish in the water. I couldn't stand it!
When I ran to the lower cabin of Aisinger, they were already here. It looked very serious from the outside, and it didn't seem too bad inside. Woma walked to me with a metal handle all over his body. "How is it outside?"
"Masaga Matsumoto is shrinking his formation. The next attack will take at least three hours."
"That's better." Woma nodded slightly relieved.
"How is Aisinger now?"
Woma shook his head: "It's not a good thing. The power pipeline from No. 13 burned down, and even the spare pipe was broken. When it fell into the water just now, a lot of water was poured in the big hole in the city wall. The first and second rows of crawler thrusters were soaked in the water, and it was temporarily unavailable. The above looks miserable, but the actual damage is not very serious. Although the track plate is broken, most of the substrates are good. Just replace the damaged foundation and reconnect it. The transmission device seems to be useful. Except for the spindle of the thruster 1217, the others are basically intact. We have lost 137 load-bearing wheels and 36 guide wheels on the wheels, but we have reserves, so there is no big problem. The key now is to reconnect the power pipeline, and the water over there needs to be drained immediately, and we have to go down to repair the cabin."
"Drainage is not easy?" I pointed to the person next to me: "Just find someone to use the Phoenix Dragon Space to fill the water. Three or five people will probably pretend to be all-round. It's not a big problem."
"This is a good idea." Woma hurriedly found several people to serve as water transport personnel and ran to load water.
Except for the wounded soldiers, most of the people in the city were sent to repair equipment. There was basically no damage to the upper level of Aisinger. The key problem is that the basic lines and some parts of the lower level are all about labor, just to ask for help, and the speed of people's hands and feet is fast.
With the emergency repair equipment inside Aisinger, Matsumoto Masaga was preparing to attack the city.
General Wu pulled Sumei and called me to the rooftop. "This city can't move anymore. The RB people will attack later. What are you going to do? Do you need Sumei and I to design a set of defensive strategies for you?"
I thought for a while and said, "It is best to prepare one for the defense plan first, but this attack will not be used for the time being."
"Why?"
"Since Matsumoto Masaki insists on keeping us this time, I don't plan to take advantage of him. This time I will use the Seven Spirit Dust Bell to solve the battle at one time."
"You want to use that super weapon of mass destruction?" General Wu was startled.
"Although that thing can only be used once a day, it is a good opportunity now. I think we can let the enemy attack first, and at first use Aisinger's powerful firepower advantage to try to consume the enemy's troops at a long distance, and let them attack the city when they get to the city. Aisinger's wall is too thick, and they now have no super cannon and are unable to penetrate the city wall, so they will definitely choose to climb up the city to find a breakthrough. During the air battle outside Hiroshima, I saw that there was a military force in the opponent's army during the air battle outside Hiroshima.
The reconnaissance unit may have noticed that there are a large number of entrances and exits on the upper floor of Aisinger. At that time, we will ask them to surround the city at the top of the city recently. After that, as long as the Seven Spirit Dust Bell rings once, the problem of siege can be completely solved. I estimate that killing 300,000 and 500,000 enemy troops will be no problem, and Matsumoto Masaki will definitely make Masaki unconscious. Then we will take a counterattack and then withdraw. At that time, the repair work will probably be over. When Masaki Masaki reacts, we are already on the other side."
"The plan is good." Su Mei worried, "But something wrong with the Divine Fog Wind Chime, and this Seven Spirit Dust Bell also comes from the Heavenly Court. What if it is also a defective product? By then, the city is surrounded by RB people. Do we have to fight with the enemy head-on?"
"This... I think I'd better go to the Heavenly Court to ask for a guarantee letter to ensure safety. If it fails, they will provide something similar to the guarantee letter."
"This is a good method."
After I was confirmed, I quickly contacted the Heavenly Court using the fairyland in the painting, and first reported the damage to the Divine Fog Wind Chime to them. Then I asked them to issue a guarantee letter to the Seven Spirit Dust Bell. Our guild expanded to the outside world to help the Heavenly Court increase its territory in disguise, so the Heavenly Court is still very concerned about our situation. Because the national war has not begun, the Heavenly Court cannot directly participate in the war, but this large-scale equipment itself is for the Heavenly Court. If there are quality issues, they do have the responsibility to maintain it, so this can still be done.
The Heavenly Court gave a reply soon. They guaranteed that the Seven Spirit Dust Bell could be used normally. If it didn't work, as long as I would like to notify me in the fairyland in the painting. Within five minutes, the Heavenly Court was responsible for sending a large destructive magic weapon called Tianyi to Aisinger, and was responsible for sending someone to guide how to use it. As for the Divine Mist Wind Chime, the Heavenly Court said it would come to repair it as soon as possible.
I felt much more relieved when I got this reply. After I came back, I told General Wu and Sumi to follow the plan. Matsumoto Masaki didn't know that I had formulated such a poisonous plan. He was still happily commanding the troops to gather and fantasize about the beautiful scenery after I captured Aisinger. However, Masaki Masaki actually had his own concerns, but they were different from what I was worried about. Masaki Masaki actually knew that Aisinger definitely had mass destruction, but he was not worried about our Seven Spirit Dust Bell, because he didn't know that we had this thing at all. He was worried about the magic crystal stone in the center of Aisinger.
Aisinger is so big and can even be launched. The power consumption is definitely astronomical with his toes. A city that is so huge that it is constantly consuming energy. The consumption speed is absolutely amazing. In order to cope with this consumption, an absolutely powerful energy is needed to provide consumption. Everyone knows this basic principle. Even if Masahira Matsumoto has never seen what it looks like inside Aisinger, he knows that Aisinger definitely has such an energy device. The energy equipment that can be thought of in the game is the magic crystal and the magic crystal energy extractor. These two things are not secrets. Masahira Matsumoto knows that we have such a thing. But I don’t know how big the magic crystal is inside Aisinger.
Matsumoto Masahiro is very clear about the fact that magic crystal can be used as a bomb. His man just used magic crystal to swell my Aisinger, which shows that he is very clear about what magic crystal can do. Now that Isinger has such a large energy consumption, there must be a giant magic crystal that maintains the operation of the city. The power of the magic crystal explosion depends on its own body volume. The power of the magic crystal explosion that doubles the volume is not doubled but directly square. In other words, there is definitely a giant magic crystal inside Isinger that does not exceed the power of a 10 million tons nuclear bomb. Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro Masahiro knows that I will not use this magic crystal as a bomb, but what if Isinger falls?
Isn't Matsumoto's plan to attack Aisinger now? In his thoughts, Aisinger will be knocked down, and we will never have time to transport this large magic crystal at any time. And Aisinger is likely to fall into their hands. It is because Matsumoto's idea that he thinks that I will jump to the wall and detonate the giant magic crystal at that time to prevent it and Aisinger from falling into their hands.
Aisinger has great strategic significance, and eliminating it is a task that Masaga Matsumoto has to complete. But if this situation he is worried about happening and Aisinger explodes, that is to say, Masaga Matsumoto has to pay the price of half of the country and all the army for it. He dare not think about what will happen in the future.
However, Masaga Matsumoto is worried that it is completely unnecessary. Because he has no hope of attacking Aishinger and occupying it. Aishinger does have the ability to self-destruct, but I have no intention of using it at all. Even if the Seven Spirit Dust Bell fails, the Heavenly Court will not send me new defense equipment. The roads inside Aishinger are crisscrossed, and there are city tree-controlled cat eye stone attackers everywhere. These things are equivalent to cold guns, which can attack the enemy under various circumstances. And Aishinger has complete teleportation equipment. If it really doesn't work, we can urgently recruit militia troops from China to support it. Relying on Aishinger's huge structure and so many advanced equipment, fighting a street battle in this city can consume at least two or three million enemy troops.
Finally, Matsumoto Masaki had another unknown secret, that is, the three parts of the Aisinger Mobile Fortress are independent. Even if they attacked and occupied the city, they only controlled the foundation layer. The middle layer above and the command layer on the top can be separated. Aisinger was still Aisinger, and we can still fly and fight. However, Masaki Masaki did not know that Aisinger Mobile Fortress had a three-layer structure, and he thought it was all a whole.
Although there are so many layers of insurance, they can't use it. I don't even plan to let RB people in the city. They can climb up to the weapon platform at most and receive our barrage baptism there. After that, a large number of enemies gather and we will activate the Seven Spirit Dust Bell to completely resolve the battle.
Three hours passed quickly, and Eisinger's repair work was still in progress. However, most of the peripheral equipment was completed. The track mechanism was temporarily unavailable for walking. Womao temporarily modified some tracks, which would allow Eisinger to have simple flight capabilities later. In fact, the flight capabilities we talk about are all about mobile flights. If it is stopped directly in the air, it can be done at any time. Eisinger's optical foundation layer has three sets of suspension equipment, which is used for air movement and orbital rings.
It is used for air steering, and there is also a set of fixed equipment that has not been used. That is to prevent equipment from being equipped. Even if we can't beat Matsumoto Masaga, we can float to a high altitude and repair it slowly. After the city is repaired, it will be a waste of energy, and it is not absolutely safe in the sky. Aisinger stumbles and shakes violently throughout the way, and it is difficult to ensure that those equipment will go on strike collectively, and it will be troublesome at that time, so I will not let Aisinger take off the air unless he has to.
To be continued...