Emperor of Arcane

Chapter 716: Feint to the East and Attack in the West (8000)

"Roar……!"

A surging roar fell from the sky.

A continuous barrage of crossbow arrows whizzed and flew towards Yaya above.

These crossbow arrows glowed with a faint golden light, obviously containing a large amount of rare metals.

Even so, these flying crossbow arrows still failed to penetrate the bright silver scales of the teeth.

They only wiped out a series of sparks, then jumped and disappeared.

Yaya, with its super strong defense, fell down very easily and crashed into the rebel mechanical base without hesitation.

The extremely huge rebel mechanical base experienced a series of violent shocks.

This is already the fourth rebel mechanical base attacked by Yaya.

Among the others, one has been completely destroyed, and the remaining two are undergoing urgent repairs and reinforcements.

This base, which is constantly producing Death God 3000 experimental bodies, has also completed a certain degree of protective transformation.

But when Yaya's attack really fell on it.

The terrifying destructive power still easily destroyed its defense.

A huge ferocious cavity appeared, and Yaya got in very easily.

In just two or three minutes, the 3000 Death God experimental subjects didn't even have time to find Yaya.

The fangs that were spewing dragon breath and wreaking havoc in the base had already made the place dilapidated.

However, the improved and enhanced Death God 3000 test body did show extraordinary destructive power.

The armor-piercing crossbow arrows it fired pierced through Fang Ya's scale protection when fired at close range.

Feeling the stinging pain, Yaya swung his tail and smashed it away. He continued to drill deeper, preparing to destroy the core of the base in one fell swoop.

After Matthew's careful research, he found that the process of manufacturing the mechanical core is extremely complicated, and the materials are even more scarce and expensive.

With more than 5 kilograms of thorium and more than 6 kilograms of krypton gold, its cost easily exceeds tens of millions of gold coins.

Not to mention dozens of other rare metals, just finding them all would cost a huge amount of wealth and energy.

The cost of building each base core is at least hundreds of millions of gold coins!

Because it is so expensive, it can carry the power of the Sinful Spark and control thousands of renegade machines.

Matthew believes that even the ancient evil thing - the Spark of Sin, cannot be the core of the production base in an endless stream.

Therefore, attacking the core of the rebel base is what Yaya wants to do most right now.

Her ideas are simple and simple, and she can make them one by one.

It doesn't matter if you don't succeed.

If you succeed, you will become developed.

This is much more reliable than "gambling" in other territories and cities, which is completely illusory and has no probability at all.

However, Yaya's intention was still blocked.

Four or five Death God 3000 experimental bodies emerged in succession and stood in front of her without fear of death.

The furious Yaya fought with him, but in the end he was unable to penetrate deeper into the rebel mechanical base.

She grabbed a Death God 3000 test subject that had lost the ability to resist and struggle, and rushed out without hesitation with hundreds of crossbow arrows pierced into it.

Although the rebel base successfully defended against Yaya's attack, at least more than 1/2 of the area inside was destroyed by Yaya's destruction and the aftermath of the battle.

The entire eastern renegade mechanical camp.

Only one large mobile city, and the last mobile base, are still intact.

However, they can no longer produce and transform more renegade machines.

They must devote more energy and resources to repairing the three severely damaged rebel mechanical bases.

What caused Guilty Spark's headache even more.

Yaya, who was still scarred before, was driven away from the battlefield.

After only resting for a short while, it flapped its wings again and flew high, landing with a deafening roar.

This time, she chose the last rebel mechanical base.

There is no defense for the rebel mechanical base, because there are only two Death God 3000 test bodies for internal defense.

As a result, Yaya, who had been killed and had to turn around, fought his way invincibly into the core area of ​​the base.

Even if one of the Death God 3000 Experimental Subjects tried its best to block Yaya's body, it was completely unable to resist its violent power.

Not only was it slapped away by her paw, but a breath of dragon breath took away half of its life.

A few minutes later, Yaya let out a roar, happily grabbed the remains of the Death 3000 experimental body and flew out with the core of the base.

The densely packed crossbow arrows that flew towards him were all blocked by Yaya's flapping wings, preventing them from destroying his trophies.

With the power of one dragon, he suppressed 70,000 to 80,000 renegade machines, and even broke into the enemy camp to take whatever he wanted.

Yaya, who had such a brilliant record, naturally made Guilty Spark feel an extremely serious threat.

He did not hesitate any longer and decisively issued the strategy of being surrounded on all sides and advancing at the same time.

Just three days.

The rebel mechanical army lost tens of thousands, and even the troubled rebel camp to the east has regained its peak combat effectiveness.

This time, they did not continue to test.

Instead, four renegade mechanical armies launched an attack on the Gulf Territory at the same time.

This time, the number of each mutinous mechanical army ranged from 50,000 to 80,000.

The total adds up to a huge number of more than 250,000, making it a terrifying army capable of sweeping across the entire mechanical plane.

The first to fight against the Gulf Territory combat troops was the renegade mechanical army located in the Grand Canyon of the North.

Tens of thousands of rebellious mechanical monsters were rushing towards the passes and fortresses built in the Gig City and the Gulf Territory.

The powerful and terrifying torrent of steel is advancing rapidly.

After the defense lines were deployed and reinforced in the past few days, they immediately launched a fierce attack on these renegade mechanical armies.

Dense artillery fire covered the past, and priority was given to cleaning up the mechanical artillery units scattered around.

The rebel machines spread throughout the Grand Canyon continued to push forward despite the artillery fire covering them from a distance.

Dozens of mechanical flying dragons were flying in the sky, quickly rushing towards the location of the artillery unit.

Face the attack of tens of thousands of renegade machines, and face the mechanical flying dragon that is about to fly.

The Mohist disciples in Guancheng turned slightly pale.

Master Ben took a long breath, looked at the huge and towering cliffs and the steep canyon walls on both sides, and said in a calm and expectant tone:

"Start it!"

call! call! call!

Before the rebel machines could continue to advance, pitch-black barrels flew out one after another from the steep slopes on both sides of the canyon.

Hundreds of catapults simultaneously dropped thousands of barrels of fire oil.

The jet-black fire oil immediately occupied the entire smaller half of the canyon, and a rich and pungent smell filled the air.

The self-launching catapult designed by the Mohist disciples' mechanics designed to deliver barrels of violent fire oil.

The entire canyon was almost completely blackened.

Realizing that something was wrong with the army of renegade machines, they immediately sent out the renegade machines, preparing to rush up cliffs and cliffs to destroy these catapults.

"Roar……!"

The deafening roar made the Mohist disciples, who were a little worried, take a long breath.

Yaya is at work!

She jumped down from the clouds in the sky, with a violent body and terrifying power.

In just a few dozen breaths, these mechanical flying dragons were completely destroyed.

After the few mechanical flying dragons were killed.

The rebel mechanical army immediately lost all air combat units.

With his worries relieved, Yaya pounced on the rebel mechanical army without fear, spitting out the flames of destruction mercilessly.

In just a moment, the dragon's breath breathed out by the fangs ignited the fierce fire oil covering the entire canyon.

The crazy burning flames converged from one small fire after another into an extremely huge avenue of flames.

Most of the special machines that could control the rebel machines were burned into a puddle of molten iron by the red flames.

The scattered rebellious monsters were also surrounded by flames.

The fierce fire oil stained on their bodies will become the best fuel, causing them to be engulfed in the flames.

The renegade mechanical army, which was advancing neatly, immediately fell into huge chaos.

Many rebellious mechanical monsters still charged forward.

As a result, they rushed into the surging flames and were burned alive.

Many long-range mechanical artillery units fired in vain without knowing where the enemy was.

Under the burning of the flames and the destruction covered by the dragon's breath, it was turned into a dark wreckage.

The fierce fire oil that was still being thrown over ignited explosions of fire one after another in this huge sea of ​​flames.

The Mohist disciples who watched this scene from a distance showed extremely shocked expressions.

"Water and fire are merciless. In a canyon with only a jumble of rocks, you can actually use fire to attack. It's really eye-opening."

Master Ban recalled the astonishing burning and destructive power of Fierce Fire Oil, with a little thoughtfulness in his eyes.

Meng Qingqing, who stood next to him and watched the battle carefully, was even more amazed by the unexpected productivity and transportation capabilities of the Gulf Territory.

In just a few days, the Gulf Territory mobilized tens of thousands of barrels of crude oil.

Hundreds of catapults capable of automatic projection were quickly produced and mobilized.

Meng Qingqing was inexplicably shocked by the power of the Gulf Territory.

The powerful combination of productivity and extremely excellent delivery capabilities are the reasons why the Gulf Territory can cause such terrible damage to the rebel mechanical army.

Yaya's attack time is a full minute, which is enough to carry out the attack range of the Destruction Dragon's Breath hundreds of kilometers away.

The rebel mechanical army located in the center of the canyon suffered a devastating blow.

The 50,000 to 60,000 rebel machines at the front fell into a sea of ​​fire.

The approximately 20,000 rebel machines that had not entered the ambush area immediately escorted the four rebel machine bases and began to retreat.

As long as the rebel mechanical base is not destroyed.

After it withdraws to the area where supplies are stored, it can quickly produce a large number of rebel machines.

With sufficient resources, its production speed can reach more than 4,000 rebel machines per day.

However, Yaya naturally would not give them a chance to retreat safely.

The Gulf Territory invested nearly 3 million gold coins in resources and arranged the flame trap to create the perfect opportunity at the moment.

Most of the 3,000 Shinigami experimental subjects that could threaten her were surrounded by a sea of ​​fire.

There are only three or four of them, protecting the rebel mechanical base.

She immediately launched a fierce attack on the rebel mechanical base.

The huge body fell from the sky, like a substantial dragon's power, making the rebel machine's body numb and dull.

Even a metal body like the Renegade Machine is not immune to this terrifying power.

A very small number of rebellious machines barely withstood the terrifying pressure released by Yaya.

But they could only watch Yaya fall from the sky and hit the arc-shaped top of the rebellious mechanical base.

Boom!

The huge top was destroyed, and the heavy steel was completely unable to protect Yaya's claws from breaking rocks.

Yaya drilled in and easily tore apart the gathered mechanical arms, drills and other protective devices.

Yaya looked at the thick steel structure and knew that this was the rebellious mechanical base, which was modified to prevent her from advancing quickly.

Unfortunately, Yaya was not only able to use claws and brute force.

A light flashed in her claws, and she took out an oversized chain tooth giant sword.

The "buzzing" chain tooth giant sword cut a big hole in the thick steel protection.

Then, Yaya happily drilled in and destroyed it wantonly.

The three Death God 3000 experimental bodies that were strictly guarded could not withstand the impact of Yaya.

As a last resort, the Rebel Mechanical Base transferred the Death 3000 test subjects from other bases.

More than 5 Death 3000 test subjects resisted the violent attack of Yaya.

However, in the process of fighting with them, Yaya took the initiative to destroy their lower body structure used for movement.

The purpose of Yaya doing this was to reduce their movement speed.

Then, under their incredible gaze, Yaya took the initiative to give up the plan to attack deeper inside.

Yaya flapped his wings, flew high again, and rushed out of the Rebel Mechanical Base.

Slipped away?

Before the Rebel Mechanical Base could breathe a sigh of relief.

A violent explosion and a distress signal were immediately sent from the Rebel Mechanical Base next door.

As soon as Yaya left here, he immediately found a new target.

But this time, several nearby Death 3000 test subjects were damaged in their moving parts and could not arrive at the battlefield in time to stop Yaya from launching an attack.

As a result, Yaya rushed into the innermost part in just three minutes and took away the core of the third rebellious mechanical base.

So far, the cores of four rebellious mechanical bases have fallen into the hands of the Gulf Lord.

In this case, the mobile city in charge of the overall situation immediately sent a signal to the surrounding rebellious mechanical bases.

Ordered them to gather quickly and form a defensive line with it as the center.

However, the mountain walls and cliffs not far away made a violent shocking sound.

Groups of bursting flames bloomed on the towering cliffs and mountain walls.

The terrifying explosion tore the cliff apart.

The surging and deadly boulders and stones collapsed to this side with a "whoosh".

The rolling rubble did not cause too much damage to the mobile city and the rebellious mechanical base in the center.

Instead, they were blocked in this canyon.

Moreover, they were isolated from the rebellious machines trapped in the sea of ​​fire.

As a result, more than 10,000 rebellious machines, a large mobile city, and the only three remaining mobile machine bases became trapped.

In the rolling smoke and dust, the mobile city and the rebellious machine mobile base formed a defensive line, ready to wait for help.

But they waited for a long time, but they did not wait for the ground forces and Fangya of the Gulf Territory to launch an attack.

All they saw was the rolling smoke and dust.

All they heard was the roar of flying dragons in the sky.

They could only stay where they were and wait for the attack of the rebellious machine army in other directions.

At the same time, the mobile city and the rebellious machine mobile base, which had stockpiled a large amount of supplies, immediately produced more rebellious machines and Death 3000 test bodies on the spot.

A large amount of rare metals and energy were consumed rapidly.

But they waited and waited, and all they got was the fierce fire oil constantly thrown down by the flying dragon knights in the sky, and the burning flames projected from afar.

These things are indeed lethal to the rebellious machines.

But for the rebellious mechanical base and mobile city, it was not a big threat.

But they did not dare to take it lightly, fearing that Yaya would rush out from the rolling smoke and catch them off guard.

The northern battlefield was in a stalemate!

The rebellious mechanical army on the eastern battlefield was advancing towards the mountainous area.

A large number of various rebellious machines rushed towards the defense line arranged by the Gulf Territory.

However, the crazy surging artillery fire and the tight firepower network immediately bombarded and attacked them repeatedly.

Especially with the Gulf Territory's "decoding" of the mechanical flying dragon, it successfully mastered its flying skills and techniques.

The manually controlled mechanical flying dragon belonging to the Gulf Territory also appeared in this battle.

However, they did not participate in the battle at close range, but instead continuously delivered huge alchemical bombs.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The terrifying flames and explosions spread rapidly.

The shock wave of destruction expanded outward layer by layer.

The twisted and deadly destructive force easily tore apart the bodies of many rebellious machines.

The violent turbulence of the entire ground caused the rebellious mechanical army to fall into the encirclement of fire and smoke.

New weapons and combat methods.

For the current rebellious machines, it is undoubtedly a complete dimensionality reduction attack.

Just after contact, tens of thousands of rebellious mechanical armies immediately fell into chaos.

In addition to the mechanical flying dragons, what made the rebellious machines at a loss was naturally the long-range artillery that the Gulf Territory had rearranged and produced.

The huge range of more than 5 kilometers was enough to surround most of the entire rebellious mechanical army.

The well-trained artillery units of the Gulf Territory were able to conduct accurate and deadly fixed-point shooting according to the situation of the entire battlefield, as well as its corresponding targets and coordinates.

Almost all the resistance of the rebellious machines would be destroyed by violent explosions.

The crowded areas of most rebellious machines would attract artillery bombardment and destruction.

The vast majority of the more powerful Death God 2000 improved models would even attract the greetings of mechanical flying dragons in the sky.

Not to mention the more powerful Death God 3000 experimental subjects.

They were always surrounded by flames and never had peace.

In just over ten minutes.

The entire rebellious mechanical army on the eastern battlefield lost more than 1/3 of its combat effectiveness.

The remaining 2/3 also fell into chaos of losing command due to the large-scale death of intelligent rebellious machines.

Even the Sinful Spark could only give it vague authority, orders to attack and advance.

The reason why it did this was to obtain the technology and information of these new weapons in the Gulf Territory as soon as possible.

However, He would soon regret it.

In addition to the 50,000 Gulf Territory soldiers on the front battlefield, they firmly resisted the charge of the rebellious machinery.

Another 50,000 Gulf Territory soldiers who were secretly mobilized have quickly surrounded the rebellious machinery camp in the east.

This time, their appetite is even bigger.

"Roar...!"

The deafening roar continued to resound through the sky.

The Yaya, who was originally fighting in the Great Canyon of the North, actually returned to the sky of the eastern battlefield.

Looking at the Yaya flying high in the sky, countless enemies couldn't help but grit their teeth, and the Sinful Spark felt a headache.

The reason is very simple.

The Death God 3000 test bodies that have just been produced these days have all been sent to the rebellious machinery army.

However, they were bombarded with a steady stream of targeted bombings, making it difficult for them to move, and many of them have been damaged.

The remaining 3000 Death God test subjects naturally could not protect Yaya from advancing frantically.

Yaya, who had already fallen into the money-minded, exerted an extremely strong fighting power.

She ignored most of the attacks and bravely moved forward without hesitation.

No one could stop Yaya from making "small money"!

If there was, she would definitely tear it apart!

Yaya, who was very smart, went directly to the three rebellious mechanical bases that she had destroyed.

This time, she did not go to the previous two rebellious mechanical bases, but to the rebellious mechanical base that she had just destroyed.

Because the former would definitely repair more damage, and there might be targeted defenses and dangers.

The latter was attacked only a few hours ago.

So, Yaya successfully solved the opponent and got the core of the fifth rebellious mechanical base as she wished.

The huge profit of hundreds of millions of gold coins made Yaya roar with great excitement.

Realizing that something was wrong, the evil spark looked at the continuous fierce artillery fire around the rebellious mechanical base camp on the eastern front.

The mobile city that was defending with all its strength and the two incomplete rebellious mechanical bases might not be able to capture the enemy's defense line.

But if the attack continued, I'm afraid that this mobile city and the rebellious mechanical base would not be able to be saved.

The battle could fail, the rebellious machines could die, but the mobile city and the rebellious mechanical base must be saved.

So, the Sin Spark gave a decisive order.

All the rebellious machines retreated at all costs.

They had completed their mission!

They used their own death to find out the distribution of the Gulf Territory's forces.

His order was indeed decisive!

Because, if he was just ten minutes slower.

The 50,000 soldiers that the Gulf Territory pushed forward would surround the rebellious mechanical retreat.

Once they established a solid defense line and set up enough traps.

They could surround more than 60,000 rebellious machines.

Relying on the continuous artillery bombardment and the bombardment of mechanical flying dragons, they could destroy them in large pieces.

Even so, the long retreat process still caused heavy losses to the rebellious machines.

More than 40,000 rebellious machines suffered a devastating blow.

Broken corpses and broken parts covered the entire retreat road.

Only 30,000 combat-capable rebellious machines retreated to the camp.

The rebellious mechanical base on the eastern battlefield was crumbling under the attack of Yaya.

If it weren't for the mobile city's full firepower and the concentrated fire of various super-heavy crossbows, I'm afraid Yaya would have made some gains again.

The Gulf Territory combat troops that surrounded from afar were quickly encircling and clearing out the remaining troops in the rear.

The bombing from the mechanical flying dragon has made the mobile city and the rebellious mechanical base unable to move.

Aware of the danger, the eastern camp also began to continuously produce more long-range protection weapons and Death God 3000 experimental bodies.

They tried to resist Yaya's "robbery" like a robber by strengthening their defense.

Yaya did not give up on their actions, but continued to wander in the sky.

Yaya's huge deterrence easily put considerable pressure on them.

A large number of Death God 3000 experimental subjects could only follow Yaya everywhere.

Seeing that they had built the mechanical camp like a copper wall, the battle in the Bay Territory came to a temporary end.

However, they did not stop, but began to dig and build large-scale defense facilities and walls around the rebellious mechanical camp.

They wanted to trap all these rebellious machines here.

As a result, the battlefield on the eastern front also fell into a stalemate.

The most intense battle was the most chaotic battlefield in the south.

The rebellious machines, like ants, advanced from all directions.

Their attack angles and directions were very special, and they gave priority to occupying the tops of various hills and both sides of the trenches.

Then, they could suppress the bottom of the mountain and attack enemies in every direction.

But this time, the goblins did not start the attack, but disappeared and did not appear on the battlefield.

However, the rebellious machines did not advance as quickly as before, but stayed and occupied in various areas step by step.

Just when they were advancing all along and reached about 1/3 of the entire battlefield area.

Boom!

The sound of explosions one after another immediately echoed in the ditches everywhere.

Groups of flames swallowed up the rebellious machines exploring the way ahead.

The crowded rebellious mechanical monsters were blown up by the mines buried by the goblins in an instant.

The flying broken parts fell down with rolling black smoke.

The death of dozens of rebellious machines did not cause fear to the commanders of the rebellious machines at all.

They simply ordered the rebellious machines in the front row to line up in several teams and move forward in a dispersed manner.

They must use their steel bodies to rush out a safe path in the shortest time.

Boom!

Boom!

The explosions rang one after another, and the huge explosions echoed in the gullies.

One after another, huge pits blocked the way of the rebellious machines.

They moved very quickly, stepping forward without paying any attention to the ups and downs of the pits.

However, another explosion came out from the rebel machine army, instantly engulfing dozens of rebel machines.

Gray and black parts flew out from the flames of the explosion, and the huge flames that continued to appear immediately stopped the rebel machine army from advancing.

The death of hundreds of rebel machines in an instant was a burden that the rebel machine army could not bear.

If it happened a few more times, the casualties of the rebel machines would reach a very shocking level.

The commander of the rebel machine army was immediately caught in a dilemma.

One or two rebel machines advanced without any impact.

The advance of large-scale rebel machines was immediately attacked.

This was obviously some kind of new attack method, and it was obviously a new weapon made by the Gulf Lords and goblins.

If it were normal, they would be very happy to dig and find the secrets in it, so as to find a way to crack it, and even use it against the goblins and the Gulf Lords.

But now is the moment of intense fighting.

The situation on the northern front was in a stalemate, the eastern camp was in danger, and the enemies to be dealt with on the western front were also more troublesome.

Only the situation on the southern front was better, and the only ones to be dealt with were the very familiar goblins.

However, when the goblins had the new weapons and equipment provided by the Gulf Territory, the situation became completely different.

Thinking of the order issued by the Sin Spark, the commander of the rebellious mechanical army continued to issue orders to advance.

This time, it still let the rebellious machines advance in a dispersed manner, but just made them attack faster.

The death of a few scattered rebellious machines was completely out of its consideration. As long as the task could be completed on time and not punished by the great master, it would be fine.

Rumble!

The artillery bombardment that came one after another immediately fell on the surrounding mountain streams. The walls and hillsides that were under fierce attack suddenly seemed to be on fire, and suddenly burst into an indescribable huge flame.

The whole ground was shaking, and the entire mountain was trembling.

Tens of thousands of explosions that emerged at the same time instantly surrounded the area where the rebellious machines were located.

They acted on various hillsides and mountain streams, causing the hillsides and rocks to collapse.

The rolling smoke and dust surrounded the surroundings, with continuous vibrations and surges.

One hillside after another turned into large pieces of rubble.

One steep mountain stream after another turned into a gentle valley.

The scattered rebel mechanical army was completely covered by the falling stones.

In a blink of an eye, a large mountain stream was almost razed to the ground and turned into one low pile of stones after another.

The bewildered rebel mechanical commander looked at the stones squeezing around and could sense that most of the rebel machines were not dead.

However, these rebel machines had been submerged by the pile of stones. Even the shallowest rebel machines were pressed under the pile of stones three or four meters deep.

In a short period of time, it was difficult for them to break free from the pile of stones by their own strength.

Not to mention that many rebel machines had suffered varying degrees of damage.

There are only a few thousand rebellious machines still on the ground.

"Kill them!"

"Charge!"

"Deal with them!"

"Kill them!"

"Revenge!"

"Charge!"

The goblins lying in ambush cheered in disbelief.

They rushed out excitedly and surrounded the chaotic rebellious machines.

They were huge in number, with more than 50,000 goblin warriors gathered at present.

They wore light and heavy combat armor, and held the bolt guns and heavy armor-piercing crossbows produced by the Gulf Territory, which could cause fatal damage to the rebellious machines.

With the advantage of numbers and powerful long-range weapons, the goblin warriors solved these broken rebellious machines.

They cleaned up the corpses and debris around them at the fastest speed.

If these debris were left to the rebellious machines.

Then it would not take long for these monsters killed by them to stand up again.

They would continue to attack them under the fire.

Now, take them back.

Then these things would become weapons and equipment for the goblins.

Even a few powerful Death 3000 test bodies could not stop the encirclement of the goblins.

Although they caused some damage, they were soon killed in the encirclement of the goblins.

Even the legendary constructs only lasted 12 minutes and 36 seconds in the face of weapons flying from all directions.

They killed 42 brave goblin warriors and seriously injured 173 goblin warriors.

In the end, they were almost completely dismantled, leaving only hideous remains and broken parts.

Prince Garrison, who was extremely excited, looked at the rebellious machines that emerged from the ground one after another, strangling them while whispering with deep feeling:

"Killing these rebellious machines can only be a temporary pleasure."

"The key to winning this war is actually the Western Front!"

After all, the focus of the battle discussed by the Gulf Command Center has always been the Western Front!

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