The Hulk of the Wandering Sky

Chapter 400 The evil god's technology is good, I use it!

"The devil! The devil is still rushing over!" All the heroic spirits and believers living in the God Realm said loudly, the number of demons rushed up like a tide, and only a loud bang was heard when they hit the wall. All the red demons turned into meat sauce, but those red demons seemed to be quite excited. After killing their companions alive, the remaining red demons rushed forward as usual.

All the heroic spirits have already been taken aback by this time. The number of heroic spirits in the Hall of Valor in Norse mythology has been absorbed and cultivated for thousands of years, and the number is only more than 3000. In front of the devil, it can be said that it is a mantis arm blocking the car!
If it weren't for the huge barrier made by the art of the world with its own ability, these demons would directly destroy the entire God Realm. The thunder in the sky kept beating, and white and blue lightning pierced through it. The over-black clouds left jet-black glue marks on the ground.

There was a bang!A terrifying blue thunder dragon landed directly on the ground, and the thunder dragon exploded!A terrifying mushroom cloud and shock waves were set off, tearing up almost everything around them. More and more big demons and bloodhounds rushed to the battlefield, and the roaring giant demon monsters began to hit the protective shield again, with fewer people The heroic spirits can only rush into the enemy group in a three-person team to score points and defeat the enemy.

Two or three heroic spirits suddenly rushed forward and surrounded an enemy with long hooks in their hands. That enemy was a roaring dinosaur with 4 huge arms and legs. It looked like insects and dinosaurs. The combination of the roaring insects and dinosaurs crazily impacted, but the heroic spirits absorbed the energy of the subspace for a long time, and they possessed extremely powerful power. The sharp hook pierced the enemy's back, and the three of them pulled hard. The entire insect dinosaur was directly crushed to the ground, and the insect dinosaur couldn't help roaring loudly. Immediately, a heroic spirit picked up the assault rifle in his hand and fired continuously at Kunzhong's head.

I only heard a series of bang bangs, and the head of the whole insect dinosaur was smashed into pieces!

But there are more and more monsters rushing forward on the battlefield in the distance. Those monsters roared loudly and mercilessly. Countless monsters spit out flames and strong acid from their mouths. Some monsters have already smashed the line of defense!
Ares, the god of war in Greek mythology, has long golden hair fluttering on his head. He is driving his angry wild boar, holding a spear in his hand, and crazily stabs continuously among the enemy groups. Ares, the god of war, symbolizes anger and war. Even when you kill the enemy Ares, you can feel that you have gained a little bit of strength from the enemy!

This is because all the demons are Khorne's subordinates. In fact, Ares and the blood god Khorne actually have a little similarity. If Ares was born earlier than Peacock, then maybe the blood god in this world God should not be called Khorne, but should be called Ares, and after Ares hunted down these demons full of anger and desire for destruction, the godhead from the God of War is also slowly increasing, so Ares Si was very excited at this time.

"I knew that hunting demons like you would make my strength grow so fast! I left this humble God Realm a long time ago, and dedicated myself to slaughtering demons like you in the entire subspace!"

"Everything has a price. When you absorb the power from us, you will slowly become our kind. This is the price! The original god! You must die today!"

A big Rubik's Cube of Khorne held a double-headed battle ax and roared loudly. Like a tank, it hit Ares. Ares was originally arrogant, how could he listen to a big demon and drive his own red wild boar? Holding the spear in his hand, he rushed directly in the direction of the big devil.

There was a hint of sarcasm in that big demon's eyes, and the red bat wings on his back waved violently, rushing directly into the sky like a rocket, holding the double-topped battle axes with both hands, and smashed Huashan Mountain from top to bottom with all his strength. Then Ares killed him.

Ares was covered in dark red flames all over his body. The spear in his hand pointed directly at the big demon high in the sky. There was a bang explosion. All the demons were smashed in half by the shock wave, and the strength of Ares was astonishing. The long fangs of the sitting wild boar directly pierced into the belly of the big demon.

Like two cold scimitars cutting several meters long wounds on the big devil's stomach, but the big devil's wounds have recovered in an instant, and the power of the big devil has reached its peak in the subspace. The battle ax he held slashed fiercely at the enemy's body from top to bottom.

There was a crunching sound from the armor on Ares' body, and even the wild boar sitting down was overwhelmed and let out waves of wailing, but the anger in the wild boar's eyes was hard to dispel, like a blow Like a missile, it rushed over directly, piercing into the big demon's stomach, and the two long scimitar-like fangs slid up again, unexpectedly pressing the big devil directly on his body.

"hold head high!!!"

The wild boar roared loudly, and four huge hooves stepped on the big devil. The big devil didn't expect that the wild boar controlled by Ares would have such great power, and his body could not be controlled for a while. He was directly crushed by the wild boar.

Seeing the opportunity coming, Oris picked up the spear in his hand and stabbed it at the head of the big devil, and the big devil was also full of anger, opened his mouth and a ball of orange-red flames sprayed out overwhelmingly, Ares hurriedly steered the wild boar to dodge to the side, but the timing of dodging was too slow. The orange flames swept across Ares' left face, and a big gash was burned on his face in an instant. The golden blood of God slowly flowed out from the wound, but the wound on his body did not recover at all.

The severe pain made Ares scream loudly, and the spear in his hand pierced out continuously like raindrops, only to hear a series of clinking sounds of fine iron, like the bullets of a heavy machine gun It's like hitting the steel. I didn't expect that the martial arts of this great demon could be compared with Ares. He danced the battle ax in his hand like a phantom, perfectly defending Ares every time. Spear slam!
"Humble fellow! Do you think your attack on me will do anything?"

Although the great demons in the real world can even be killed by ordinary people, it is because the great demons do not have much power in their bodies, but in the subspace, the great demons can continuously absorb powerful energy. It can guarantee that the big devil will always be invincible when dealing with the enemy.

Ares is fighting back and forth with a big demon on his side, and other powerful gods have also met their opponents, basically the big demons wielded by the demon of Khorne, whether it is The goddess of victory, or the Persian army god, or the monkey god Harroman, these powerful gods are all fighting against the big devil. The whole battlefield looks very chaotic, and the villages outside the countless protective shields of the gods are all The souls of many human believers have been burned to death after being tortured by demons, and they will become even more terrifying evil spirits to launch a counterattack against the gods!
Many gods were bitten and killed by their believers like zombies before they even had time to react. Countless evil spirits opened their mouths and bit a god's arm, and that god couldn't help but scream loudly. But the power of the evil spirits is extremely astonishing, with only a click, the whole arm of the god was directly torn off by those evil spirits Qi Gen, and at this moment, suddenly there was a terrifying shock wave howling from a distance And pass!

All the evil spirits were completely torn to pieces by the huge shock wave before they had time to react. When the god looked up in panic, he found that it was an ordinary human fist still emitting faint smoke. That attack didn't seem to have any pressure on that human being.

"The weak! You should just hide behind! Always rushing forward, are you looking for death?" Liu Hao looked at the god and said coldly. It was a muse, although she looked very beautiful. It's mouth-watering, but when surrounded by countless evil spirits and about to be killed, it's still strong enough to make people feel good!
The muse shivered at Liu Hao's cold eyes, and was about to speak, but Liu Hao gave him a hard look, and the muse immediately backed away, not daring to appear on the front line of the battlefield.

But in the distance, the army of demons rushed towards the protective formation like a tide, and the protective formation began to make a sound of being overwhelmed, but Liu Hao knew that such demons were not even considered to the World Tree Any pressure on the ground, like a breeze blowing on the face, will not have any impact on the World Tree at all. The reason why there is such an overwhelmed voice is to stimulate the gods in the God Realm.

Sure enough, when they heard the sound of zi la zi la, the flustered faces of all the gods became even paler, and even many god kings were already fidgeting and preparing to do it themselves. The three main gods in Hindu mythology have all gone from Standing up on his throne, Shiva, the most powerful God of Extermination, has already grasped his trident of contempt, and a millstone beside him has begun to slowly turn, this millstone can Wipe out the universe.

It is obvious that these three great gods are ready to participate in the battle, but even more violent energy fluctuations are emitted from the demon army in the distance. Obviously, in the subspace, the demons have almost endless forces. If you kill it, you can be resurrected in a short time. In addition, there are endless demons that are being produced. These demons are like grass and cannot be killed cleanly. The disgusting ones are like dog skin plasters.

Shiva, the God of Extermination, held his trident, and suddenly a raging flame burst out from his third eye. This kind of divine fire can burn everything in the world, even the furthest demons It will immediately turn into fly ash.

The demon's core in the subspace was also exposed, it was an octagonal body that was transforming at a high speed, just as the demon's core was absorbing the energy of the subspace and preparing to be resurrected, suddenly a small silk thread wrapped it directly. cores.

With a click, the core was immediately crushed by the silk thread, and all the power was absorbed by the translucent thread, but all of this was done very quickly, and it was extremely secretive, even the most sensitive demon could not detect it Realizing that the core of his companion has been destroyed, he just guessed in his heart, thinking that his companion had already been revived elsewhere.

Liu Hao naturally sensed this, until the World Tree could definitely be full during this battle, but even after eating so many demon cores, the huge World Tree didn't seem to be as big as it looked from afar. It didn't grow that big.

"The whole cake contained in the core of these little demons is really too little, I need you to help me hunt down powerful demons, raiser!"

"When you want to ask me for help, call me the caregiver, and when you don't want to ask me for help, call me Bruce, you are really a clever little ghost!"

Liu Hao complained to the World Tree in his heart, and the other party immediately sent out the expression of a kitten sticking its tongue out. Liu Hao shook his head helplessly, and could only walk towards the outer perimeter of the protective formation. There are several holes in the middle. In fact, this hole is left by the World Tree itself. It is to let the gods in the God Realm fight and fight in these holes, but maybe it is because of the high level of world art. After estimating the strength of the God Realm, there are still many demons who have entered the God Realm through various magics, but those demons have been controlled by the World Tree, so they have not caused any damage in the God Realm. What a commotion, otherwise these weak gods in the God Realm would have been slaughtered by the introduced demons long ago.

But even so, Liu Hao could vaguely feel that some gods seemed to have gradually begun to degenerate, especially those gods of monotheism, and those angels under them. Originally, those angels were inferior in terms of divine power and godhead. If you are not a god, you still need to deal with powerful demons like gods, and you are more likely to be seduced by demons and fall, but because most of the power of angels is not as good as gods, even if some angels fall, they will be quickly clean up.

Many demons surrounded the breach, and Liu Hao's fists waved continuously, each fist could set off a terrifying shock wave, and the subspace energy fluctuations caused by the strong wind turned into countless blade-like sharp blades, The extremely fast rotation of the previous generations twisted all the demons into pieces like a tornado, and immediately after the demons were killed, their cores exuding a little bit of starlight were exposed. Naturally, World Tree couldn't let go of such a good opportunity, and rolled up immediately. Moving his translucent roots to devour those cores!

"It seems that you have lived comfortably in the subspace for a while, not only have countless gods kill those demons for you, but also make you full!" Liu Hao teased in his mind while punching. Said.

"It's just barely making ends meet. Without you, I really wouldn't be able to earn much!" World Tree's flattering voice came from my mind, and Liu Hao could only shake his head helplessly, and continued Kill them in the direction of that group of demons, and behind Liu Hao there are a few lives he doesn't know. After all, there are many gods on the earth, and these gods all live in the God Realm. Every god has its own domain of rule. Although it is very likely that ordinary people have lost their beliefs, these gods can more or less absorb some energy from the subspace, and have lived until now, and there are very few The gods will kill others of the same kind, not only because all the gods will be protected by the pantheon, but also because it is difficult for the gods to kill each other, which is why Zeus only sealed the Titans, not the king of gods Zeus is unwilling to kill all these enemies of his own, but he is really powerless!

The gods following behind Liu Hao can also absorb some subspace energy from the demon after killing the demon. Although the subspace energy in the demon's body is all violent and disorderly, the subspace energy is a kind of leap Irregular energy, when the god absorbs this energy in his body, there will be two results. The first result is that the god will be corroded and may fall, but if he stays in the world created by the world tree In the defense formation, all these energies will be smoothed out, and the part that is more than tyrannical will be excreted from the body, just like the human body will sweat, and the tyrannical part of energy will completely disappear, leaving only the purest possible energy. The part of the energy that strengthens the gods' own sanity and ability, so some weak gods will desperately slaughter demons, and these gods behind Liu Hao seem to be gods from some very weak Pacific island countries.

The gods in the Pacific island countries are not only extremely complicated, but also very incomplete. Most of the gods are not even gods, they can only be regarded as demigods, such as the one that Liu Hao saw not far away. A god who is three meters tall and has various sea fish tattoos on his body. The name of that god is Maui, and the weapon he uses in his hand is called a fishhook staff. Maui can use the fishhook staff to transform into various It's just that the strength of that god is too weak, but it seems that after fighting the devil, it absorbs enough energy. I also hope that the gods of these Pacific island countries will become stronger in the future.

There are many gods following behind Liu Hao, but Liu Hao's speed is too fast, and his attacks can set off a violent subspace storm every time, and after killing the demon, the demon's body Liu Hao ate all the subspace energy released by the fragmentation like copper black jelly, and the world tree behind Liu Hao would eat the core of the demon, so the entire army of demons originally thought that You can use your own core to continuously resurrect. After fighting for several hours, you find that the dead demons have not been resurrected.

Because the number of dead demons is really too much, although some big demons are as powerful as gods, but the number of big demons in the entire demon army is quite large, but if you want to compare it with the little devils, it can basically be said that It is 1 in a million. On average, one big devil will be born for every one million little devils, so the number of little devils is also more. Crush them all, and then absorb all the subspace energy in the bodies of those little devils, and use the evolution ability of the world tree enchantment to absorb that energy into your own body. As for the little devils left after they died Some cores, World Tree will also eat them all.

After those cores die, part of the world tree will put the battle rules in the core into the Hall of Valor, and the dead heroes in the Hall of Valor will be resurrected, and those heroic spirits can kill demons on the battlefield to get enough The rewards, the more demons you kill, the richer the rewards will be. From the rewards, you can get the knowledge that various World Trees have obtained from the core of demons, although the number of heroic spirits in the Nordic Hall of Valor is only There are more than 3000, but in the underworld among the gods of various countries, the number of souls in it is far more than 3000, and the sum even exceeds tens of billions. Such a huge soul is under the influence of the World Tree. Next, transform all these souls into their own heroic spirits.

After all, the world tree already knows what kind of method the devil uses to operate. It only needs to create a core in the body of the hero like the devil, and then put this core in the world tree. As for the shell of the hero, it is just It is recasting with subspace energy, just like a player playing a game. After death, all levels will drop, but the fighting skills will be retained in one's soul and memory, and once again fight the devil.

So after the world tree absorbed enough demon cores, more and more heroic spirits appeared on the battlefield. If it weren't for the fact that the number of demons killed by the gods is not enough, the world tree doesn't have many cores. , otherwise, nearly 100 billion heroic warriors may even appear!
So many heroic warriors, coupled with the various cores obtained from the demon's body, the knowledge, magic and various martial arts extracted from those cores can help the resurrected Heroic warriors slay many demons in a short period of time.

The more the number of demons killed by the heroic warriors, the more amazing the record they have. Using the points obtained by what is called a demon, the heroic warriors can use the points to exchange after they die in battle or return to the God Realm Rewards, rewards are generally the knowledge extracted by the world tree from the core of the demon, or some weapons left by the demons that the world tree picked up on the battlefield, but after all, the weapon will be used directly after the heroic warrior dies. Drops, so the price of weapons is generally not very high, but the knowledge that the heroic warriors like to exchange is the knowledge, especially the magic, because once exchanged, even the next resurrection will be permanently owned.

"Although the four evil gods of the subspace are all a group of lunatics, their methods of creating demons are indeed very powerful. After resurrecting these demons, they will not affect the souls of the demons. I even need to slightly modify the core technology of the demons. It can be used to create heroic warriors. No matter how many times these heroic warriors in my hands are killed, their original souls will not be affected. Even with death, their souls can slowly adapt to the energy corrosion of the subspace , let them become even stronger!" World Tree had to praise the technical strength of the four evil gods, especially the technology of the soul core, which has almost reached the level of soul immortality. All demons as long as the core does not If it is destroyed, it will have immortal life. Even the four evil gods have no way to kill these demons under them, they can only transform these demons.

World Tree kept sighing in Liu Hao's mind: "I thought you wouldn't spit it out after eating those devil's cores, but I didn't expect you to secretly transform human souls. Becoming a heroic warrior, logically speaking, you should have no way to intercept all these souls since the birth of human civilization in the underworld, how can there be so many human souls waiting to be transformed!"

"It has to be said that human beings are a short-lived race. Since human beings have existed in the subspace since the beginning of their birth, the original gods of human beings have always existed along with human civilization. Many human civilizations will imagine that they have an underworld. , due to the protection of the underworld, the human soul is not polluted by subspace energy. After a lot of human civilization, there are many human souls, and after all, human beings have only lived in these thousands of years. On the planet Earth, so even though there are many souls, they are not paid attention to by other gods in the subspace, not to mention that the gods of justice who pose the greatest threat to evil gods in the subspace are usually those of the Eldar Gods, these human gods are too weak in the eyes of the four evil gods of the subspace, so I have tens of billions of souls in my hands waiting to be transformed!"

Liu Hao was very speechless after listening to what World Tree said. After tens of billions of souls become immortal heroic warriors, these heroic warriors can continue to fight the devil until the devil is killed Kill all of them. After all, after the demons die, the World Tree can take away the souls of the demons and train them to become heroic warriors. Although these demons will not be resurrected again, the number of demons is extremely large after all. Only when the timeline It took an extremely long time before the heroic warriors could win the final victory in this subspace battle.

Regarding the war in the God Realm that has lasted for as long as a month, Liu Hao can finally breathe a sigh of relief, because World Tree has expanded its barrier to five times the size of the entire God Realm, not only many The gods have returned to their peak state, and the number of heroic warriors has increased by nearly 5 times compared to the past.

The total number of heroic warriors is more than 400 million, and these heroic warriors are all carefully selected by World Tree. After all, not every human soul is good at fighting and killing. These heroic warriors are a group of People who are extremely eager to fight are all souls who yearn for extremely powerful power through the careful selection of human souls. When these heroic warriors are sent to the battlefield, at the beginning, the combat experience and skills of the heroic warriors are very different. I am not very mature and will be easily slaughtered by demons, but as the heroic warriors die and come back to life more and more, these heroic warriors have quickly learned the skills of fighting demons, just like playing a soul game. Keep dying and kill demons to get points and then redeem rewards in the Hall of Valor, get enough rewards to make yourself stronger, learn more fighting skills and magic knowledge, and even exchange for more powerful weapons and Strengthen and enchant your own weapons to deal with different enemies, and you can also form a team with other heroic warriors to face demons together, so in just one month, the enchantment formed by the World Tree has expanded compared to the past 5 times.

"I don't know how many demons have been killed for you in the month-long battle, and it's time to leave the subspace. I don't know if those space fighters on Earth have cleaned up all the demons!"

"The battle on Earth is basically over, and those space fighters have already left, because we blocked the subspace demons in the subspace, so the demons on the earth did not have enough reinforcements, let alone those demons in the subspace. After being killed, their soul cores have been devoured by me, so even if you go back now, there is no way to get any benefits, because those large human organizations will not give up on you!"

Thinking of the pissing nature of the United States, Liu Hao also had to lament that he did a great job, so he decided to just stay in the subspace.

"In fact, I have a plan to expand our influence in the subspace. Since I have decided to protect the human beings in this world, it is better to occupy a wider territory in the subspace. After all, the subspace covers more than just It's just a small galaxy, and the area occupied by the subspace is all intelligent life in the entire universe, but because an emperor who can kill the evil god of the subspace appeared in the galaxy, the evil god of the subspace will pay more attention to it. Divide your attention on the Milky Way, otherwise hundreds of millions of galaxies in the universe will pay attention to the Milky Way, which is only a medium-sized galaxy."

What the World Tree said is indeed true. In fact, the entire universe is extremely vast. The four evil gods are unique in the subspace. There are countless galaxies the size of the Milky Way in the universe. If it weren't for the appearance of a human emperor in the Milky Way Gods, I am afraid that the four evil gods of the subspace will not notice the existence of the Milky Way at all, and let those demons under him attack the Milky Way. Anyway, the number of demons is endless, and the subspace can pass through the body of any intelligent life. Emotions and thinking gain energy, and the evil god will not care about any single ethnic group in any galaxy, so what the evil god cares about is not the intelligent ethnic group of humans at all. If there is no human emperor, a ethnic group like humans There is no way to spread any waves in the Milky Way.

This is true even in the powerful golden age experienced in the past.

"So you're worried that the Emperor of Man hasn't been born because of us?"

No one knows where the emperor came from, or even whether the emperor is a human being, but the four evil gods of the subspace know very well that the emperor is definitely a very strange god, even the same kind as them.

There are many speculations about how the emperor appeared, the most important one is that the human wizard group absorbs the huge beliefs of human beings through long prayers and pleadings, and finally builds the entity of the emperor in the real world , like cultivating an ordinary person to cultivate an emperor, but it is obvious that the time for this incident should be from the third millennium to the fourth millennium of mankind, that is, during this period of time, mankind began to slowly develop Access to the subspace.

But the current time is only around 2042, that is to say, humans have not yet begun to contact subspace. The first time humans came into contact with subspace or the first time they had an understanding of subspace should be a few years later, that is, When the plot on the surface of the black hole begins.

If the plot really happens as revealed on the surface of the black hole, then around 2047 the real invasion from the subspace demons will start in full swing, so there is actually not much time left for Liu Hao and the World Tree. It is necessary to build a large enough line of defense for human beings outside the God Realm in the shortest possible time. If the demons in the subspace are really willing to invest enough troops, then the small civilization of the human earth will be easily crushed is very easy.

Outside of the God Realm, there is no such thing as space and time in subspace, but due to the expansion of the enchantment of the God Realm and the World Tree, a certain concept of space and time is still followed in the enchantment, so the enchantment has expanded to Where actually represents where the tentacles of the God Realm have touched, and the gods living in the God Realm have parted ways with the heroic spirit warriors.

After all, all the gods have already known that the number of heroic warriors far exceeds them. Although many myths claim that they have millions or even hundreds of millions of gods, in fact, those gods are all just spirits. In mythology, it was not taken seriously, not to mention that World Tree didn't have the idea to cultivate those gods. Most of the gods were either killed by demons, or they were slaughtered by their own kind after falling into demons, so now The number of gods in the God Realm is already very scarce, and most gods are now considering expanding the number of their own kind.

Therefore, in the current god world, it is rare to see a large number of marriages of gods, and there are even marriages between gods. For example, the gods of Egyptian mythology are marrying the gods of Greek mythology. The abilities that these gods can possess after combining Naturally, it is more comprehensive.

And now Liu Hao is leading hundreds of heroic warriors to prepare to open up a second line of defense in the subspace. The current World Tree is strong enough to absorb energy from the subspace to cultivate a clone for himself. This root is connected to another intelligent group in the Milky Way. The location of that intelligent group is very far away from the location of human beings in the Milky Way. Even the golden age of human colonization has included The entire Milky Way should not have come into contact with that intelligent race until the end of the Golden Age.

The name of that intelligent group is called the Western Humans. They look almost the same as normal humans, except that they are taller and slender. Even their body structure is exactly the same as that of humans, except that their skin is covered with tiger patterns. The general stripes look like the Naxi people in Avatar.

In the green plant tribe of the Xiren tribe, which has a population of more than 2, Agudo suddenly opened his eyes in a deep sleep, and a loud voice reached his ears just now.

"Agudo! You will become the leader of the Xiren! Rule all the Xiren, and you will lead the Xiren into greater glory! You will be blessed by the gods!"

Agudo was awakened during his deep sleep. At this time, his eyes were full of disbelief. In the translucent temple woven with countless silver and golden brilliance, the gods of the Western race were looking down at him, standing next to the gods. It is the legendary golden heroic warrior, and Agudo even found his grandfather among the heroic warriors.

"Can I really do that?" Agudo looked down at his hands. He wasn't even a nobleman among the tribes, he was just an ordinary warrior, that's all. However, he was blessed by the gods and would become a The leader of the Western tribe!
Taking a deep breath, Agudo walked out of his thatched hut. At this time, the stars were shining in the sky, and a bright auspicious star in the distance shone on Agudo's body.

"We will give you a gift, and we will also have the power to control nature, thunder, fire, water, wind, and mountains. As your battle and unified territory become wider and wider, you will be able to gain more power to conquer, Create and build a more brilliant civilization for the Western race!"

Agudo, the majestic voice that came from his mind made his heart surge, and he slowly clenched the dagger in his hand.

But the same voice is on this planet of the Sutra tribe. The Liu Haodu tribe selected tens of thousands of Westerners to promote the idea to them. After all, it is impossible to put all eggs in the same basket.

(End of this chapter)