Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 400 After Dusk (Seeking monthly votes at the end of the month!)
Rumble.

The sky was overcast and rainy, thunder roared, and beneath the ruins of the central city in the darkness, violent earthquakes began to occur. Searchlights shone down, and then, to the astonishment of countless people, a colossal S-class creature, covered in gray-white bone spurs and with only part of its head still bearing the restraint armor, slowly stood up. Steam rose from its flesh and blood, and the 24 EVA restraint locks on its back were completely broken!
It was not the Gray Mist Messenger who stood up.

Instead... it's gray fog!
Watching this scene from high above, KIKI's face was filled with horror. She murmured...

"Lin Xian..."

He immediately rushed headlong towards the ruins.

Large fragments of armored vehicles remain here, and the ground is covered in a cloud of blood mist!
Seeing this terrible scene, KIKI immediately used her telekinesis to disperse the smoke and dust, and then frantically searched for Lin Xian.

"Lin Xian! Lin Xian!"

At that moment, the towering S-class gray mist monster in front of them suddenly let out a deep, muffled roar. KIKI reacted and immediately prepared to use her psychic power to resist.

Suddenly, Lin Xian's voice came through the earphones.

"KIKI, get out of here!"

"Lin Xian?" KIKI asked in surprise, "Where are you?"

"I am where I belong..."

Inside the main compartment of the suppressor device remaining in the head of the Gray Mist Messenger, Lin Xian lay quietly in the survival pod. Before severing the neural connection, he sent it one last command.

Rampage!

The gray mist was now enveloped in scalding steam. Its suppressed brain was now filled only with a ferocious desire to attack, and its gaze slowly turned to the corpse driver who was attacking the survivors and the army!

Uh-huh! !
Suddenly, the colossal S-class creature was freed from all mechanical restrictions and charged wildly toward the corpse driver.

At that moment, the corpse driver who was firing laser beams at Huo Jiang's Iron Guard Brigade sensed an unusual presence. He turned around and was about to use the Dark Mark to detect it when he was met with a giant bone-spiked fist that felt like a mountain collapsing and the earth splitting!

boom!
The punch was powerful and heavy. The two giants collided and produced a loud boom. A white shockwave could even be clearly seen with the naked eye.

Strangely, when the gray mist punched him, the corpse driver didn't activate any defensive force field or red mist. He was simply punched so hard that half of his face was blown off, and a large amount of tissue from his head was ejected, causing blood to splatter.

Gray Mist didn't stop after her punch; she followed up with a powerful kick! The kick sent the corpse driver staggering several steps and crashing into several tall buildings. Gray Mist then followed up with a third move, charging forward and delivering another mid-air knee strike. Sharp bone spikes pierced the corpse driver's sternum, knocking her down from the front.

The corpse-driving figure, hundreds of meters tall, suddenly collapsed backward, causing a violent earthquake and sending dust billowing up!

At this moment, all the soldiers and survivors in the city were stunned. This bizarre scene was not only because the S-class monster was attacking its own teammates, but more importantly, this gray mist, covered in bone spurs and resembling an alien creature, was actually fighting a set of... military boxing!

Inside the Twin Star Tower, the Phoenix Society's top leaders were all stunned. Just as Huo Jiang and Lu Tianye were about to unleash all their firepower on the two giants, Ye Lan suddenly spoke.

"Adjusting firepower to deal with other strange tides, that gray fog must be Lin's doing now!"

"Yes!"

Above the sky, Shinji Mochizuki in the Silent City also noticed it immediately. He immediately contacted Lin Xian through his communicator, only to find that Lin Xian's voice was so weak that it was about to disappear, and what came through was more... the sound of a giant fist hitting the ground.

Amidst the ruins, a bizarre scene unfolded: a raging, gray-mist-like entity was furiously punching a corpse-driving man even larger than itself. Each punch caused the earth to shake and dust to erupt.

At this moment, the corpse driver, whose torso was almost smashed, seemed to finally prepare to fight back. Buzz!

In an instant, four laser beams pierced through the gray mist's sternum, leaving four huge bloody holes. However, the gray mist seemed to be completely unaware of the pain and had no mental communication whatsoever. All that remained was bloodlust and rampage. With each punch, it blasted the corpse driver's face to smithereens, while the corpse driver's torso continued to regenerate.

This earth-shattering battle unleashed a torrent of energy, sending flesh and blood flying everywhere. The corpse driver unleashed a white shockwave, peeling away the gray mist's tissues layer by layer. In the main control compartment of the implant suppressor, Viola sensed the danger and immediately severed all links. Just before she could completely shatter the gray mist's torso, the suppressor device on the gray mist's head suddenly activated, and a dancer robot equipped with thrusters suddenly shot out, carrying two survival pods with it.

At this moment, the gray mist suddenly stopped moving, stood still, and remained in the punching posture.

hum!hum!
One massive shockwave after another annihilated the gray mist's skin, charred its tissues, and blasted its internal organs away. Finally, the gray mist was blasted into a skeleton by the corpse driver's shockwave and collapsed with a thud.

On top of a damaged high-rise building, Viola brought out two survival pods.

Chi.

One of the survival pods, covered in blood, opened, and Lin Xian struggled to crawl out and lay on the ground. He was breathing rapidly, trembling all over. The severe mental overload had begun to cause him to hallucinate, and his vision was blurred.

“Viola…” Lin Xian called out weakly, his voice barely audible, “Is she alive…”

No vital signs.

[Initiate the second AED procedure]

Noisy!
A flash of light appeared. Inside another cryo-chamber, Chu Yan's face was deathly pale, and blood was flowing continuously from her mouth and nose. She remained unresponsive. At the last moment, he took Chu Yan's cryo-chamber out of the Black Star Forge in an attempt to revive her consciousness, but the result did not go as he expected.

Lin Xian sighed softly and tried to stand up, but found that his body was completely unresponsive and his head was throbbing. He could only let Viola drag him up from the ground and let him lean against Chu Yan's cryo-chamber, his gaze fixed on Dawn City, which was now full of ruins.

"This is the West Street position of the 7th Division of the garrison. Our air defense array has been cut off, and we've run out of ammunition! Repeat, ammunition exhausted!"

"Chen Weiguo, Zhao Gang, immediately move your Fourth and Eleventh Divisions to the riverbank line in front of City Wall No. 2!"

"All special operations teams, concentrate at Starport and Central Tower to protect the City Ring!"

"A medical team is urgently needed on Central Street! Hurry, the injuries here are very serious!"

"The Dawnwatch Alliance and the Iron Wall convoys were scattered in the Upper South District. Everyone, retreat to the East District!"

"Don't give up! The City Ring of Dawn City is still shining!"

"Lin Xian, Lin Xian, can you hear me? Our train is surrounded! We need to..."

"Lin Xian, where are you?"

"Team Leader Lin!"

Inside the headphones, the sounds from various channels were a cacophony of commands, shouts, roars, cries, and pleas for help. Human voices converged on the radio frequencies, like a symphony from a desperate civilization engraved on a phonograph stone.

At 16:45, the sky was still dark.

The dark tide, like an ever-present shadow, hangs over Dawn City.

The once bustling, intelligent metropolis, the City of Night, has now become a living hell. The dazzling holographic sky has long since been extinguished, replaced by billowing smoke, like a pot of boiling asphalt, thick and suffocating, obscuring the entire sky. A light drizzle has been falling for two days and two nights. Occasionally, a gust of wind tears through a patch of smoke, revealing not a blue sky, but blood-red thunderclouds, where burning dust reflects the flames that have not yet been extinguished in the distance.

High in the sky, the wreckage of several crashed airships still hangs between the skyscrapers, their steel cables broken and their hulls tilted, like giant beasts nailed to a cross.

On the other side of City Wall No. 2, the inner city was still ablaze with fire, the sky ablaze with artillery fire, the entire Dawn City battle line was split in two, and the human front continued to shrink.

Beneath those ruins lay the bodies of young men, and in those flames burned immortal ashes.

Above the dark clouds, lightning flashed and fire raged across the sky. The outline of a terrifying giant serpent in the clouds was faintly visible in the lightning, its size even surpassing that of Silent City.

All the strange entities are becoming even more violent. It seems that endless creatures are crawling out of the three star abysses from the darkness, devouring humans and Dawn City.

In the distance, the corpse driver, whose upper body had been shattered by the rampaging gray mist, was now enveloped in black mist and returned to its original state under the despairing gazes of countless people. This time, the corpse driver did not head towards the No. 2 city wall, but instead braved the artillery fire and walked towards the ruined building where Lin Xian was.

Boom, boom, every step shook the earth and mountains, carrying an oppressive aura of destruction.

"Don't let the large, bizarre creatures into the city, or the corpse drivers will regain their life force!" At this moment, in the cockpit of the Vermilion Bird, which was engaged in a bloody battle with the S-class monster, Bai Ye and Su Rui saw the corpse drivers heading towards Lin Xian and shouted while wielding their plasma diffraction swords.

At the western city wall, the deep blue Xuanwu cleaved open the abyssal worms that had emerged from the ground with a single sword strike. Immediately, the Qin brothers, Yue and Chuan, raised their heads and looked at the strange creatures surging into the breach in the city wall like a tide, as well as the outlines of various large, strange creatures in the darkness behind them. The bloodshot eyes of the two brothers met.

"elder brother!"

"bring it on!"

"Void!" With the Qin brothers' furious shouts, the nuclear power center in the chest of the Xuanwu burst out with a sharp hum, and plasma beams erupted wildly. Then, the two of them simultaneously swung their right arms, took a few steps forward, and directly cut through the gap in the city wall in the torrent of monsters with the force of ten thousand men!
……

"Teacher Ye."

Inside the Twin Star Tower command center, Ye Lan, who had been standing for a day and a night, heard a weak voice through his earpiece.

"Lin Xian, where are you?" Ye Lan's voice sounded calm as ever, and it seemed that everyone could feel an indomitable power in that old yet firm voice.

"Teacher Ye, is darkness really frightening?" Amidst the ruins, Lin Xian felt the S-level chaos after his rampage. Looking at the approaching corpse driver, he knew that his spiritual power might have attracted the attention of this dark creature.

Upon hearing Lin Xian's voice, Ye Lan replied, "We cannot understand a civilization using human thinking. From a macroscopic perspective of the universe, whether it is an ant or a human at the top of the food chain, there is a survival crisis. This is the same for both advanced and primitive civilizations."

"But the resistance we can offer seems insignificant in the face of such a civilization. Does that mean we have no power to resist at all?" Lin Xian watched the towering figure approach. Despite his weakness, he didn't seem to have much fear of death. He was more filled with resentment and anger.

Ye Lan patiently replied, "The chain of suspicion between civilizations cannot be broken. This is a basic axiom of cosmic sociology. Like hunters lurking in the dark forest, every civilization has to regard other beings as threats—because survival is the primary need of civilization. And the total amount of matter in the universe remains constant. The difference between advanced and low-level civilizations is merely the difference in the range of a shotgun. Ants cannot understand why humans destroy their nests, and we cannot understand why dark creatures would destroy human civilization in this way. But one thing is certain."

"What?" Lin Xian asked.

"They cannot effectively and completely destroy us, at least not in the short term. Perhaps they have some purpose, but all of this shows that they do not have the same understanding of us as God."

Listening to Ye Lan's words and watching the approaching corpse-driver, Lin Xian weakly leaned against Chu Yan's cryogenic chamber and replied, "That makes sense..."

Lin Xian's consciousness gradually blurred. He tried his best to open his eyes and saw Silent City burning high in the sky and the Iron Guard Brigade's space warships falling.

He saw above the Twin Star Towers, the Iron Guard Brigade and the last fleet and soldiers of the garrison relentlessly protecting the radiant city ring.

He recalled what Chu Zhaonan had said when he said goodbye.

"When I was young, I worked as a mechanical engineer."

"I remember the first time I entered Star City, I saw the City Ring and thought that mankind was really great. It was amazing that they could create such a magnificent mechanical structure as a beautiful landmark. It could not only drive in the air, but also send signals to planetary spacecraft for space orbit positioning. It's a pity that we can no longer see such a civilized engineering project."

He remembered that when this human leader spoke these words, his tone carried not only a hint of reminiscence but also a vibrant and upward-looking aspiration.

But at this moment, he saw a large number of bizarre creatures wreaking havoc and slaughtering people in the city. The Star City orbital station was reduced to ruins, the sky rails collapsed completely, millions of people fought desperately in the city, and countless convoys disappeared and died in the monster tide like bubbles. Humans were like ants in front of these creatures.

He saw in the center of the neon-lit district, in a huge sinkhole, Bai Ye and Su Rui, a married couple, piloting the Vermilion Bird, fighting a deadly battle against the stitched-up S-class creature. Flames raged, the earth shook violently, and the battle continued until the Vermilion Bird's plasma diffraction sword broke. The couple resolutely activated their mechs and leaped onto the strange creature, using full-pressure decompression diffraction incineration to completely incinerate it into ashes, along with the Vermilion Bird and themselves.

He saw the breach in the No. 1 city wall on the west side of the city. The one-armed Xuanwu, wielding a high-frequency bladed chain sword, stood kneeling at the breach. In front of this giant mech lay countless corpses of A-level special-grade bizarre beings. The two nuclear-powered engines on Xuanwu's chest had long since shut down, and golden coolant dripped continuously from the metal frame of its chest armor, mingling with the blood of countless fallen soldiers, like an unyielding Great Wall of steel...

He heard the sounds coming through his earpiece: Chen Sixuan's shouts, KIKI's inquiries, Jian Xuwei's commands, Shi Diyuan's roars, Jiang Yun's rescue attempts...

He heard Ding Junyi saying something, along with Xiao Yuan and Miao Lu's voices, and heard the engine of the Infinite Train Giant Whale 03E Heavy Gas Turbine Locomotive roaring in his ears.

Or perhaps he couldn't hear clearly, and all he could hear was a deafening roar.

Lin Xian's bloodshot eyes slowly focused. He saw that the dark, evil god that blotted out the sky had arrived in the ruins in front of the high-rise building, its empty abyss gaze fixed in his direction.

At this moment, endless darkness surged in, and Lin Xian's spiritual power was like a flickering candle flame. Faced with this mountain-like dark creature, Lin Xian was so small that he was almost insignificant.

cough cough.

Lin Xian stared calmly at the corpse driver who had brought despair to the entire city. Blood foam continued to flow from the corner of his mouth. After communicating with Chu Yan through the gray mist, he seemed to be able to sense that staring gaze.

He couldn't decipher the meaning in her gaze, just as even with neural connections, one cannot perceive the thoughts in the darkness, yet Lin Xian could sense it.

There was a strong sense of doubt in his eyes.

In the command screen of the Twin Star Tower, Ye Lan looked at the dilapidated buildings where the corpse driver and Lin Xian were located, and said, "In the vast universe, civilization is both the most brilliant light and the most dangerous shadow. We are both the hunter and the prey."

"The attack is accompanied by probing. They use higher-level creatures to test the range and power of human hunting rifles step by step. Does this behavior also indicate that they are afraid of unknown forces?" Lin Xian slowly replied, "Just like you told me, being bitten by an insect, or even by a poison dart frog with deadly toxins."

“That guy from the Crimson World said that dark creatures are the perfect life form, they are angels.” Lin Xian looked at the corpse driver: “I wonder if angels… feel pain and fear.”

hum!
Amidst the smoke and ruins, four crimson lights slowly illuminated, aimed at Lin Xian and the entire area where he was located.

Lin Xian looked up, trying to say something, but he had no strength left. His vision blurred, and the crimson light seemed to be the last twilight.

Viola stood in front of Lin Xian.

I will do everything in my power to protect you. It has been a pleasure working with you, Mr. Lin.

Noisy!
A flash of light appeared, and a faint AED sound rang out behind him. At that moment, Lin Xian suddenly felt a faint spiritual force, like a gentle hand, softly lifting his heavy brain.

Lin Xian opened his mouth, then looked in the direction of the corpse driver, his lips slightly upturned.

He regained some strength, so he shouted.

"Grace."

This isn't speaking into a communicator; it's more like shouting into deep space.

After a brief silence, Lin Xian heard that familiar voice again.

【I am here. 】

At this moment, a near-Earth planet defense platform with a diameter of 12 kilometers, located at an altitude of 52660 km in geostationary orbit around Earth, is quietly rotating in the dark depths of space.

A brain-computer interface device invented by Shinji Mochizuki, containing a flashing bullet, was connected to Grace's communication interface. This forbidden object, born from the darkness, broke through the signal transmission blocked by the giant curtain of the sky with the same energy frequency, allowing Lin Xian to successfully contact Grace and making him the only person who could control this near-Earth planet defense platform from the ground.

At this moment, Grace had completed the system takeover of the near-ground defense platform, restarted all subsystems, and was waiting for Lin Xian's summons.

"Since Apocalypse Day, humanity's space power has been silenced."

In Dawn City, atop a ruined high-rise building, Lin Xian struggled to his feet, leaning on a cryo-chamber, his gaze defiant as he met the four crimson eyes of the corpse-driving man.

"So, you probably haven't tried... the strongest destructive power accumulated by human industrial civilization either."

hum!
The corpse driver's crimson eyes blazed with fury, his cold gaze fixed on Lin Xian as he prepared to kill him.

At that very moment, Lin Xian's eyes flashed with fierce light, and he roared defiantly with the power deep in his throat!
"South Heavenly Gate, fire!"

Above the uninhabited deep space, a 12-kilometer-diameter ring-shaped energy storage array suddenly lit up with a dazzling, eerie blue arc of light. Twenty-four "Candle Dragon"-class confined particle beam arrays, like unfolded wings of judgment, silently turned their cannons in the vacuum, redirecting the high-energy particle cannons that were originally aimed at the direction of deep space to destroy asteroids towards the direction of the Asia-Pacific region of Earth. The deep space radar synchronized the coordinate parameters to the aiming scope, and a blazing white light, like the birth of a star, burst forth from within the particle acceleration ring.

In an instant, the core of the high-energy particle cannon at Nantianmen burst forth with a light strong enough to tear the retina. A torrent of plasma with a diameter of over 500 meters converged in space into a divine spear of punishment that pierced through heaven and earth. The atmosphere was ionized at the moment of contact, creating a crimson vortex several kilometers in diameter. The clouds were not penetrated but directly vaporized, and the thunderstorm clouds along the way were like cotton wool torn apart by an invisible giant hand.

The moment that torrent of energy struck the surface of Dawn City, time seemed to stand still for a second.

The entire Dawn City seemed to be illuminated by the sun. The billions of strange tides and torrents in the sky and on the ground, the gun muzzles of the soldiers fighting desperately, and the faces of the survivors who joined the torrent of war were all swallowed by the blazing white light. The black shadows that covered the entire city were instantly torn apart, and the shadows were stretched infinitely.

What followed was a silent annihilation. Centered on the corpse driver, all matter within a three-kilometer radius was instantly vaporized into basic particles. The shockwave spread in a perfect spherical shape, shattering tall buildings along the way like sandcastles. Those enormous, bizarre entities, whether A-class or special-class, with bodies hundreds or thousands of meters long, were decomposed into carbonized fragments. The ground melted into a glassy state at hundreds of millions of degrees, and the boiling silicate magma was whipped up by the shockwave into crystallized waves hundreds of meters high.

The energy aftershocks lasted for a full 17 seconds.

All communication frequencies in the city were interrupted, and the shockwave caused countless people to temporarily lose their sight and hearing.

When the beam of light dissipated, only a five-kilometer-diameter crater remained on the ground. The corpse driver, who could regenerate infinitely, had gathered all the remaining red mist and defensive force field, but now even his ashes had vanished. Along with them, the dilapidated building and the two survival pods also disappeared.

In the city, crimson plasma waves, like the aurora borealis, enveloped the sky, illuminating the endless darkness.

On the command ship, as Lu Tianye rushed out of the dazzling light and looked out from the bridge, all the artillery fire in the world stopped at that moment.

The soldiers on the front lines and city walls, who were fighting desperately, lowered their arms to shield themselves from the light and struggled to look. They heard a dense rustling sound in their ears, like the receding tide. When they looked again with their searchlights, all the strange creatures had disappeared into the darkness and vanished without a trace. All that remained inside and outside the city were piles of monster corpses.

At the Twin Star Tower, Ye Lan arrived at the observation deck outside the city ring. The thunderclouds in the sky dissipated, the smoke cleared, and the three dark tides of the sky quickly receded.

In the west of Dawn City, where the war raged most fiercely and tragically, the golden sunset, like a sharp sword, cleaved through the smoke that had enveloped Dawn City all night. The light was not dazzling, but rather carried an almost gentle cruelty, dyeing the ruins of Dawn City amber. The shattered glass walls reflected thousands of tiny points of light, like embellishments to a brilliant lament.

On the city wall front, a soldier from the Iron Guard Brigade released the trigger, the bloodstains on his face dried into a brown map, and silently looked at the setting sun.

Everyone stood quietly in place. Inside the underground shelter, refugees covered in dust began to emerge from the passageway. They saw countless cold corpses lying in the dust on the streets, in the ruins, and under the city walls. At this moment, it seemed as if the warm sunset was gently caressing them, bringing solace to their departed souls.

17:02 minutes.

At dawn in the clear sky of the Qionggu Strait, in the European Storm Alliance in Reykjavik, Phoenix in Ushuaia, North America, the United Front in Alaska, Oceania, the Noah and Republic Sanctuary Islands... and in the survivor shelters struggling to survive around the world and the countless convoys driving towards dawn, a single frequency resounds simultaneously in every corner.

"Zizi..."

"This is the highest command headquarters of Dawn City. I am Ye Lan."

"On behalf of the Phoenix Society, I hereby officially announce to all of humanity that after 25 hours of arduous fighting, the Battle of Dawn City ended at 16:57 today. Thanks to the fearless and bloody battle fought by 5 million survivors, including the garrison, the Iron Guard Brigade, the North American United Front, the Infinite Alliance, the Dawn Watchers Alliance, the Common Alliance, and the Iron Wall, we successfully repelled the offensive probing attacks from Star Abysses No. 5, 7, and 8. We annihilated 4 S-class creatures, including the Corpse Driver of Star Abyss No. 5, Creature No. 11 [Earth Surge], Creature No. 16 [Sky Touch], and Creature No. 18 [Wanderer]. We also annihilated countless Special-class and A-class anomalies, successfully causing the Star Abyss expansion tide to recede back to its original position..."

"At the same time, in this battle, we have successfully mastered the dark energy conversion technology that can completely shield us from the mutations caused by the dark invasion. This will allow humanity to survive and breathe in the darkness, and we will regain resources for survival such as planting and water. For this, the Phoenix Society, on behalf of all survivors around the world, thanks Colonel Chu Jing of the [Civilization Vanguard], Lin Xian of the Infinite Alliance, Chu Yan of the North American United Front, and other pioneers for their outstanding contributions to humanity."

"This is a landmark battle for humanity since the Day of Revelation. It means that for the first time in our struggle against darkness, we have gained the opportunity to break the balance of power and bought precious time for all of humanity to deal with the darkness..."

"In the vast universe, civilization is both the most brilliant light and the most dangerous shadow. We are both the hunter and the prey. Peace between civilizations is always built on the possibility of mutual destruction."

"And now, let us step into the dawn, remain silent in the darkness, gather our strength, and explore the ultimate power that human civilization has yet to break, to fight against this destructive crisis, and to begin..."

"The Era of Deterrence!"

The flames in the ruins of Dawn City burned for several days and nights. Under the surveillance of the Nightwalkers, the expansion speed of Star Abyss slowed down significantly, returning to the initial expansion speed at the beginning of the Apocalypse. As the central city, the Phoenix Society did not abandon Dawn City, and Lu Tianye took the initiative to lead the garrison to guard it personally.

The survivors gradually evacuated in the days that followed, heading north and east. Some stayed behind, joining the garrison or settling in the city to help with its reconstruction.

Thousands of construction vehicles swept across the ruins, dust swirling over countless cold corpses as they headed north to the plains. The Dawn Watchers Alliance had nearly doubled in size, with many more women and children joining them. Among them were most of the members from the Iron Wall. Xu Yufei, who was considered a fence-sitter, was the first to flee Dawn City, yet he was also the first to embark on the journey back to Dawn City to provide support, dying just before sunset.

Also buried beneath the city walls were Lei Zhen, the hot-tempered and foul-mouthed captain of the Common Alliance; Luo Heng, the Wind Whisperer car team who preferred lightly armed raids; and Jian Zeyang, the arrogant man, and his Steel Sun Car Team, composed of impoverished survivors from the outer city.

Ten days later.

At Yongcheng Port Rail Station, the newly renovated Infinite train, pulling 10 improved deep-sea compartment carriages and equipped with ocean traction devices and storm detection equipment manufactured by Silent City, roared its engines along the ocean section of the circumpolar orbit, accompanied by an elite team of dozens of people.
Heading towards the Pacific Ocean!
(End of Volume 4)
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