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Bionux project

Tw- gore, blood, exposed bone, death, and horror

Date-27.8.201X (August 27th, 201X)

The goal of this project is to create a living oranisim that is more than just flesh. The organisims will be able to regrow all parts of its body that humans cannot, and are able to survive with much less resources and what would normally be fatal injuries to a human. The organisims will live to beyond the age of one hundred or more. They will grow in strength and size for longer and more than humans, for when usually humans stop growing after or around adulthood.

The project is to be hidden and will be funded by a gonvernment agency roughly fifty feet underground and its surface entrances will be gaurded and fenced off.

This is known as “Project: Bionux”, and for 39 years bit by bit progress has been made, and now we finnaly have sucsess.

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Date-19.04.202X (April 19th, 202X)

After work hours, There was a call for a full site evacuation and lockdown. A team of lab gaurds made the following report of the situation:

“||[[[redacted]]]|| had already called for the lockdown before we could get in and seperate them, but they let us know that it wasn’t safe to enter and we called for backup. Emegency code B9-2”

. . .

Live_recording-28.04.202X

mission_code:bionux-recovery-attempt

Current: a backup team of three is heading down elevator shaft to the underground laboratory on floor B4

The backup team was not previously involved with the labrotories and did not have proper information regarding the project

#One-"This is so strange, they barely told us what to do down here."

#Three-"What’d they tell you?"

#Two-"I couldn't get much out of most of them, there was one that told me very briefly that they were testing robotics and biology?"

#Three-"Maybe prosthetics that stay attached to amputees?"

#Two-"Maybe, it sounds cool but the whole 'you can't take it off' kinda scares me, like what if it goes haywire and hurts you?"

#One-"Actually, what if that’s what happened?"

#Three-"wait really?"

#One-"This is just speculation but, there was a murmur about a virus, maybe something wrong got installed, mabye a sabotage from someone, but I think it made the prosthetics go wrong and they couldn't fix it"

#Two-"then why were some of them crying?"

#One-"Maybe it was just scary, a reponse to fear?”

#Three -"Can’t blame them, I'd be terrified honestly, I've always been scared of robots taking over or something"

#One -"That crap's fiction, I doubt robots would be able to do that, most of the robots today can't even run"

#Two - "What if they fly instead?"

[A breif silence was shared]

#Three - "I hope robots are actually nice instead, yknow? Maybe it's not all evil.

#Two - "Yea I'd love a robot friend, that'd be si-"

#One -"Hey, we're almost at the bottom, focus"

[ The team stands silent as the elevator shaft come to a shakey stop, #One leads the group out of the brightly lit elevator and into the dark laboratory. It is without power and is pitch black, the team activates a headlight on each of their helmets

They all see that the elevator drops down in the middle of the lab from a pillar-like elevator shaft rather then coming out from the wall]

#Two -"I have a question"

#One -"What..?" [Somewhat aggravated]

#Two -"If we're just here to grab a few things like computer software or hardware and leave, then why'd they give us full gear. Why us? we're higher ranked special forces, why not just send some basic rookies to do the cleanup?"

#One -"Maybe the technology they have down here is supposed to be secret"

#Two -"Then why the gear?"

[ #One pauses ]

#One -"Maybe some of the prosthetics are still active and we might get hurt?"

#Two- "But, the power's out...?"

[ there was another pause as they walked through the laboratory ]

#One -"I guess, batterys?"

#Two -”Could be..”

#Three -"What's... actually down here?"

#One -"For now we just focus on the task at hand, okay?"

[ #Two and #Three nod in agreement ]

#One -"We’ll stay in the same room but look in different areas, don’t leave the room until the rest of us are coming, got that?"

[ #Two and #Three confirm with yes ]

[ From body cam of #One:

The floor is a smooth concrete and the walls are painted white with two horizontal blue stripes running along them, there's several stations for labwork and computers

This room is empty of anything worth grabbing]

#One-"Hey [#Two], hand me the map they gave us of this place"

[#Two puts down a empty vial and shuffles over to #One as they rummage through thier belt compartments]

#Two-"Here you go"

#One-"Thanks”

[ #One examines the map for a few seconds before handing it back ]

#One-"Alright follow me, I think I have an idea where to find what they want"

#Three-"So uh, what… are they looking for?"

#One-"You weren't told?

#Two-"Haha, I wasn't either"

#One-"God this mission is a mess... we're looking for a tablet screen of some sort, they said it might be attached to something directly and we might have to carry whatever it's attached to back up"

#Two-"God I hope it's not some heavy machine"

#One-" Let's hope for the best but prepare for the worst"

[The team slowly makes their way around the laboratory, making sure they’re always nearby one another.]

#Three-"Hey, what's that?"

[They all pause to look, there's something glimmering in the distance on the floor, reflecting the light from thier headlights

They approach it somewhat cautiously

It's clearly blood, sometimes small drops, but mainly strange looking bare footprints painted with blood. It trails off elsewhere to a seperate hallway]

#Two-"Didn't they say there were no casualties? Like no physical injury?"

#Three-"Yea, everyone got out of there without a scratch on them"

#One-"Then who left the trail?"

#Three-"Should we follow it?"

[ All were on edge now ]

#One-"We have to."

#Two-"But the mission was to get in and get o-"

#One-"I don't care! I'm following the trail, what if someone didn’t get out in time and nobody noticed?"

[#One leaves the team and begins following the trail of blood]

#Three-"He's team leader, I guess, so I'm going with him"

[#three also departs

#Two stands alone, for a decent amount of time]

#Two-"Join the special forces they said, it’d be cool they said."

[#Two said mockingly as they followed behind as well]

. . .

[ The three all together arrive at a door were the blood trail lead

The door reads "Bionux cellars"]

#Three-"Cellars?"

#One-"Maybe the scientists sleep down here sometimes-"

[The group was interrupted by the sound of a metal plate or disk dropping from inside the door, it noisily clattered on the other side, it become louder as it trembled until it stopped completely

They all froze

#One slowly turned the lever door handle and pushed open the door]

#Two-"ohh my god..."

[The floor shined like a pool of red, bits and pieces of flesh lay about, there was a hair like material all over as well even huge clumps of hair the size of bodies, the three had never seen anything like it]

#One-"What.. the hell... happened here?"

[Three was sick, they seemed like they were going to puke

All where curious, but only #One was going forward investigating

#One continued farther, stepping into the thin puddles of blood with his boots and trudging slowly along, feeling little chunks of flesh nudge his boot every now and again, looking into the blood for anything. #One spotted a metal tray, he assumes it was the one that’d just fallen. #One looked over at the spot were he assumes it could've fallen from. A table on wheels, the kind they would use to roll around food at restaurants

Ignoring the plate for a second #One examined the "Cellar" room itself, #two and #three still stood near the doorway but had now entered the room

The room had different sections of 20 medium sized beds, with blankets on them of different coloration and patterns, but all were now covered in blood. The beds were spaced out by about a meter for five beds then spaced out for two meters with a thin foldable wall in-between, some of the walls were torn and busted. There were also curtains on and above the beds, likely for privacy of some sort

There were also several toys and other entertainment items laid around

#One-"was this for kids?"

#Two- “Who knows, maybe they worked down here for so long they brought thier kids down here.”

Then #One noticed it now that they were closer,

The large clumps of hair, soaked in blood, where corpses of some animal-like creature

When he noticed sent chills through #One's spine, had lab animals gotten loose and killed kids? Why would there even be kids down here?

#One called the other two over to him, reluctantly they both came

#One-"Do you know what animal that is? Or any of the others laying around?"

[The two looked at it for a little while, well, #three looked away pretty quickly but gave thier imput]

#Three-"M- maybe try flipping it over? It looks back up."

[#One placed their gloved hand on the mass and pushed it, heavy and soaked in blood it didn't move as much until they but a little more effort into it, it then flipped belly up]

[What they saw left them speechless,

Broken glass, metal, flesh, and blood

It was a creature of humanoid shape, with wolf or tall cat-like ears, and long and large amount of fur all over the body

The body wasn't the strangest part about it, it was the face, or rather the lack of one.

It seemed to have been replaced with or just was a metal frame with shattered glass around the edges, and inside the frame was a fleshy amalgamation of wires and metal binded all together, a skull could be seen, although smashed inwards revealing a brain.

#One kneeled down and leaned over to it and lifted up its head, getting themself even more blood soaked then they where, they pulled it to themself and stared at it in shock and sorrow

#One knows this *thing* used to be alive, there **were** casualties, just not human ones.

#One pressed the poor thing to thier chest and rocked themself, coating their gear in its blood, they weren't taking this all that well.

#Two and Three extanged glances, worried.

#One-"Count the other bodies"

[ #Two and #Three were indeed hesitant but they didn't have to touch them at least, so they slowly counted each one separately to make sure they got the same number

As they did this #One laid the thing back down carefully and examined it properly

Other then the broken screen, the body had wounds all over, they were a bit hard to identify due to the fur but one by one they were able to point them out.

Sevral tears at the legs and arms, but nothing was fatal until a giant gash in the neck, where something seemed to pull out all that it could grasp, likely cutting off its lung capillaries.

Then the other two made a report on the counting

"19" both of them said

#One noticed how close the number was to the amount of beds, off by one ]

#One-"Are you sure you didn't miss one?"

#Two threw an arm behind his head in uncertainty, "I guess we'll recount..."

[As they did once again, #One left the body alone and went to another

This one was facing the ceiling, with arms sprawled out a little on the ground

The metal frame didn't only just have broken glass, it's entire frame was torn, open and in half, the head was almost entirely in two, revealing a smashed skull

On one end of the room #One heard #Three hold back a hurl]

#One-"You okay?"

[#Three was leaning towards the wall and was definitely in distress]

#Three-"I-Im fine, it's just this one-"

[#Three held back another hurl]

#Three-"-really doesn’t help to look at."

[#One began walking over to #Three to have a look himself,

And just like #Three, he wanted to throw up

The frame was bent out of shape, arms contorted in a disgusting formation, broken bones were visible coming from the elbows, the chest and stomach had been torn open, sevral organs ripped and torn apart

#One closes thier eyes and looks away]

#One-"Did you lose count?"

[#Three nods lightly, still recovering from the sight]

#Two-"Well I've got 19 again..."

#One-"Alright, but, there's 20 beds"

#Two-"Mabye an extra?"

#One-"Maybe, I'll count one more time just for good measure"

[And so #One counts aloud]

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19-

. . .

[By the beds,

It had just crawled out of hiding under one of the curtains.

There they stood, barely 1 and a half meters tall.

#Two noticed it immediately after #One.

#Three was still leaned up against the wall and hadn't noticed yet.

It has a few bits of it's right ear missing. The glass face wasn't broken, except for a small crack in the bottom right of the glass, it was active, glowing with an expression on its display, a distrought expression

In thier left hand, they held their own dismembered right arm that was cut off in the middle of the forearm

#Two nudged #Three

#Three turned around holding their stomach, and immediately reacted to it by finally throwing up

It muttered slowly, counting itself for them]

"20"

[It’s word echoed through the room as they processed the creature. The screen’s expression shifted to a distraught smile, finally having found hope, or rather it’d found them.

It began shuffling towards #One, with a heavy limp, most of the skin and muscle of the right leg was shredded to the near bone.

to add onto the injuries, it had a large gash along the right side of it's ribcage

#One wasn't even sure how they were alive at all

It tripped over one of the corpses of its own kind, #One reached their arms out to it and caught them

Just then they had gone limp in #One's arms, finally being unable to stay conscous from it’s injuries

#One lifted them up still in a mix of shock and concern of the strange creature

How would they treat the wounds? So much of the flesh itself was torn off and just entirely gone, it’s not the same thing as sticting a wound or patching it up.

Would they die? Although it wasn’t a normal animal or creature by any means, they still seemed humanoid. with opposable thumbs and stood on two legs, just covered in fur with a screen for a face, and if they were anything like a human when injured like this, they would most definenly die. Be it infection, bloodloss, and whatever injuries it may have. What if-

#One shook thier head and stopped panicking, not saving time to think. He picked up thier dismembered arm they'd just dropped and began running to the elevator shaft

Without words #Two and #Three ran after him and tried to keep up but Three had just thrown up and Two just wasn't as fast as #One when they had a life to save

Even as #One was running to the elevator, they snagged a first aid kit off the wall and continued

When #One arrived in the elevator they set down the creature softly on the elevator's floor and opened up the first aid kit and attempted to treat any wounds possible as the other two ran to the elevator.

The elevator itself wasn't connected to only the labatory's power but also a secondary power source from above, so it worked just fine without the lab’s power, but it was still significantly slower.

The other two arrived at the elevator, #Two was helping #Three along, they’d slowed down to help them. After getting in they started it up while #One was still working on the creature’s wounds, clearly uneasy and still doing the best he can.

They didn’t speak for a while. During this moment of quiet #One noticed just how clean the cut was on the forearm, it looked sugical rather then having been broken or torn off. Was this from before there’d even been any attack? Was this from lab expiriments?

As they headed up in a panicked silence, #Two spoke]

"Well at least we got what we came for."

[#One responded, stressed]

"What do you mean by that?"

#Two-"You said we needed a tablet or screen that may or may not be attached to something right?"

#One-"Yes, but all we’re bringing is-"

[#One paused, he took a good look at the Creature's faintly glowing face, now without anything displayed on it. Square in shape with a slight curve to it to better fit their skull… Simply put, its face was a screen.]

#One-"Oh… I guess you’re right.."

[#One kept scrambling around in the medkit for more of anything to help. #Three was still recovering from their ill stomach, but muttered a question.]

#Three-”What are we going to do once we get to the surface?”

#One- ”Hopefully find a someone who can help them!”

[One shouted in fear and frustration and glared breifly at the other two, barley holding himself together while he patched up the broken body infront of him

There was another pause]

#One- “I’m sorry… I didn’t mean to…”

#Three- “It’s okay, we’re all stressed out right now, I don’t blame you for snapping at us.”

#Two- “I also grabbed this, if that helps.”

[They passed a second medkit to #One]

#Two- “While I was helping out Mr. Queasy over here I happened to spot it after you’d grabbed the first one

[#Three chuckled]

#Three- “Sorry about that”

#Two- “Honestly not your fault, even if you’re not sensitive to stuff like that like you are, most would puke anyway”

[#One let out a quiet laugh, not quite sure it was something he should be laughing at, before turning back the the creature, who was now looking right back at them, with an expression of awe thier face was brighter then before even in the bright elevator’s lights. #One was shocked and flinched at first.]

#One- “Y-you’re awake? Already?”

[The other two didn’t realise until #One had spoken, #Three gasped]

#One- “You, you should rest, your injuries are-”

[The creature turned thier head to look at thier own body, but #One stopped them]

#One- “Well don’t look at them! Just wait until I cover them up first..”

[The creature let its head fall back down]

“Thank you” [It said]

[#One was speechless, still shocked by the creature themself, he mustered any response he could think of]

#One- ‘Sorry we werent there sooner.”

[Another moment a tension filled scilence filled the air. . .It then occured to all of them at once that they should’ve arrived at the surface by now, they all looked to the ceiling]

#Two- “Are we even going up?”

#Three- “What’re we going to do if the elevator broke?”

#One- “Nonono”

[They looked down at the creature]

#One- “We can’t get stuck here, not now!”

[It was then that all of them felt a thump against the elevator’s floor from beneath it. They all froze, they barely breathed. A loud snap of a cable startled them all, #Three began to hyperventalate

#One looked at the soft fuzzy creature with guilt and sarrow]

#One- “I- I’m sorry”

[It smiled in response]

“Don’t be"

[A choir of snapping cords began to sing as the elevator fell, the song of thier deaths. The elevator screeched as its saftey measures tried to save them but something from below only pulled them harder, with a sudden jolt it seemed like the entire elevator had been freed from anything it was attached to and just plumeted down.]

[Connection severed]

The depths

Section 2

The pain in his head was the first thing he noticed. His ringing ears slowly began to readjust, he heard muffled shouting and metal bashing. All of them had just plumeted down the elevator shaft and crash landed.

Something was nudging him from the side as he layed backdown. He slowly opened his eyes to a light in his face, was it a flashlight? It wasn’t the elevator’s lights, they were brighter. He blinked a few times as his eyes slowly focused and became clear.

The blurry light turned into a face, the glowing face that belonged to the creature he’d been trying so hard to save just a moment ago. They were saying something but he couldn’t make out the words.

The air smelled weird, it left a odd tinge in his mouth. He took a deep breath in but only ended up coughing after a sharp pain struck through him. He rolled over to his side and slowly picked himslef up, two paws tried to help pull him up.

“Watch the light!” a familiar voice shouted at him

Immedietly after hearing that his helmet smashed some sort of glass. He flinched away from it and looked back, it was one of the light poles that went in the pannel the elevator had in the ceiling, now resting on the wall. He looked back the other way.

Raine and Gabe seemed to be trying to pry open the elevator’s sliding doors. They were broken and crooked. Although very heavy doors, definetly not the strongest, he probobly could’ve broken them eaisly by kicking it and knocking it off its tracks or just breaking the tracks or any mechanics connected to the doors themselves, making it unable to open or shut.

Raine was taller then all of them, but not above him by too much, but noticably taller then Gabe. Raine’s tactical vest was labeled TWO, Gabe’s was labeled THREE, and his own was labeled ONE.

“What happened?” he asked, almost out of breath.

“Depends on how far back you remember after that fall of yours, can you help with the door first?” Raine grunted.

He nodded and took a step towards the doors.

“Me and Gabe will pull it from the same side, it’ll open a bit but it keeps closing again before we can get any farther. So you’ll push it open from the other way once it does, and once it’s open enough slip inbetween go and force it the rest of the way," Raine instructed.

All got into position, Raine starts a countdown at 3. He noticed that when she was counting, the creature who was standing idly by, was also quietly counting along.

After hitting 1 Raine shouted “Pull!”, He anticipated the opening, and once it was there he jammed his hands in it and pushed off the wall with his feet. He felt the doors pushing back, how where they doing that? Was it something in the mechanisims? He only tried harder to overpower it and shuffled himslef in and began pushing the door with his feet.

Then he saw it, what was forcing the doors shut. He didn’t even need his headlight to see it. Just on the other side of those doors was several moving cords, as though alive. Just out of sight from Raine or Gabe, these cords where trying to seal them in here by stabbing into the steel doors and pushing against them.

He unbuckled his holstiered pistol and turned of the saftey in one swift movment and fired three times. The gun slung around his chest would’ve been slower to pull so he determined within a fraction of a second to go for his pistol first.

Sparks flew and the cords shot out of thier positions on the door. Cords grabbed his legs and swiped him right off his feet, throwing him out of the elevator and into the darkness. He hit the floor and a good angle and just slid across it.

“VINCE!” Raine shouted to him. He picked himself off the floor and caught glimpses of movment, massive movment. Something big was behind all those wires and was avioding being seen directly. He pointed his head so that his headlight illuminated around the elevator.

His life flashed before his eyes as a massive cord whipped his head at terrifying speed and threw it to the ground. If his head didn’t already hurt enough, it sure did now. Even now, he still had his pistol gripped tightly. With his body sore and head aching, he leaned up and readied his gun. Even though the majority of what was controlling these wires was coated in darkness, he noticed three glowing white dots all together in one group. He choose one and shot.

In just that small moment of muzzle flash illuminating the room, he made out just how big it was. Nearly 20 feet from head to toe. Wires stringing across and out of it. What he shot at must be it’s head. The room was again flooded in shadow

There was the sound of the bullet hitting and being ricocheted off, followed by a deafening screech. All the wires began to get dragged off following the glowing dots, which there where still three of. It seemed to craw upwards from where the elevator was.

It retreated. He let out a sigh of relief and rested his head back down. He flicked his gun into saftey and holstered it again. All he wanted to do right now was lay down, everything hurt. He rested his eyes a bit.

“Vince!” Gabe shouted his name this time. “What’s going on? Are you okay?”

Vincent could see thier headlights shining through his eyelids. He took a deep breath and just held up his arm and gave a thumbs up before letting his arm fall limp back down. He heard her and Gabe jogging over as all thier equipment shuffled with them.

“Oh my god, your helmet!” Gabe exclaimed.

He was curious and reached up to examine it. When his hand didn’t touch anything at first where his helmet should be his eye’s widened and he sat up. He unbuckled the clip at his chin and slid his helmet off. He was shocked to see nearly all of the frontmost area had broken off, which would leave his forehead exposed.

His headlight was certantly destroyed after a hit like that, it seemed targeted right at it. Which likely was the differance between life and death, if it’d gone for his face it could’ve been caved in. Didn’t mean that it didn’t hurt like hell now.

“What was that? What where you shooting?” Raine asked.

“I don’t know, it was big, larger then any animal i’ve seen. It also looked like it had wires coming off of it, one of them whipped me and did this” He said gesturing to his helmet.

“All we saw was you start shooting and then get thrown out of the elevator, but right as you did the door was easier to pull open," Gabe said.

“Oh hey, how’s your head?” Raine poked.

“Terrible, when it hit me it sent my head into the concrete floor," Then he checked the other side of the helmet to see that side was also cracked. He’s glad it’d been softening the immense concussions he may or may not have.

“Oof,” She chuckled.

From the elevator, Vincent could see the faint light coming from the sceen on the creature’s face. It was still in there, probobly scared to death. He got up, ignoring just how much pain he was in. Before the other two could help him up he was already standing and shuffled on over.

Leaning through the doorway he saw them neatly sitting in the furthest corner from the door, knees to thier chest and arms wrapped under the knees holding their legs. When they noticed Vincent thier screen faintly brightened and they scrambled to thier feet, they’d picked up thier own severed right forearm again.

Remembering just how injured they where, Vincent stepped towards them with an arm extended forward.

“Careful, your leg is still hurt,” he reminded with worry.

It was still amazing to him that they were conscous, let alone alive. He’d patched up and sanitized all the wounds he could, but half of it wasn’t survivable all added together. The best he could do for thier leg was encase it in bandage after dousing it with sanitizer, which proboly didn’t do all that much.

Dispite all of this, they stood, taking a step towards him and reaching out. Vincent reached a second arm out and anticipated to catch them if they fell again. Instead of falling, they’d slipped past his arms and hugged him. Far too short to do it properly but they tried, platning their flat face just under his ribs.

They both relaxed, unsure how to hug back, he akwardly put his hand on the top of thier head. When he did he noticed they had a short tail that began to wag

He wondered, and so he asked “Do you have a name?”

They released the hug and took a step back, they took thier severed forearm and put it under the other arm it’d belonged to. Now with the empty left hand they pointed to the top right corner of thier screen on the metal frame which had a label that read: “M-127-Z.” The Z at the end was much more bold and apparent.

“My name is Zee,” they said cheerfully, tapping the label.

“Zee? Are you okay? Does it… hurt?”

Zee looked down at themself silently for a moment.

“It doesn’t hurt, but I can feel that something isn’t right.”

Considering that the right leg alone was the worst injury he’d ever seen, he’d expect more of a reaction to its pain, espesially while standing on it. Were they in shock? Could it just be one of thier strange traits to have numbed pain? What even were they, why were they made, how?

“Does that hurt you?” Zee asked, pointing to his head.

He’s reminded of his massive head injury with searing pain, he replied “Yes, lots.”

“I’m sorry.” Zee apologized, still looking down now with guilt in her voice, they sounded like they were going to cry somehow.

“Hey, no no, this isn’t your fault,” He said, getting down on one knee to be at eyelevel with them. Zee tilted thier head a little futher up to look at them.

“I don’t want you to get hurt again,” Zee mumbled, all choked up.

“Don’t worry about me, you should worry about yourself more right now,”

Zee lifted their chin higher, their eyes squinted as they began to cry. Now with Vincent at eye level, Zee hugged him again properly while lightly sobbing.

Vincent returned the hug cautiously, avoiding touching any wounds. Which was difficult regaurding they were everywhere on Zee’s body, even some on thier back he didn’t notice until he felt the bloody flesh through his gloves, although Zee didn’t flinch at the touch.

Vincent wasn’t sure if Zee could actually cry, with their face being a screen and all, but the expressions on said screen were alive. They had emotions just like any person, they were no different from a human aside from physically and in appearance.

Vincent still wondered how Zee could see or how they could speak. His thoughts were interuppted when he noticed the footsteps of Raine and Gabe approaching the entrance to the broken elevator with their sleek yet clunky tactical boots. He also heard them talking quietly as they got near.

“Can I carry you? I don’t think you should stand right now, wiether or not you can feel the pain,” Vincent suggested.

Zee replied with a quiet hum of agreement.

WIth that he carefully picked up Zee,

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