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Speaker 1: The audio file you are about to access is a

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digital recovery from the final transmissions of the Arc of

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Knowledge expedition. To date, the whereabouts of Professor Oscar Jerome

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and his team remain unknown. We are presenting these recordings

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as they were found, unaltered unaltered.

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Speaker 2: As the archivist of these tapes, I feel a responsibility

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to warn you this is not a.

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Speaker 1: Simple story of discovery. It is a raw document of

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survival and descent.

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Speaker 2: The events within are intense and maybe deeply unsettling.

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Speaker 1: Listener discretion is strongly advised. This recording contains moments of extreme.

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Speaker 3: Peril, so.

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Speaker 4: The sound of a dial.

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Speaker 2: Claustrophobia, and life threatening situations. Significant psychological distress, including depictions

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of panic attacks, paranoia, and immersive auditory hallucinations designed to disorient,

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sudden audoises, jarring soundscapes and creature related horror. Themes of

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existential dread, and the blurring line between perception and reality.

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This is their unfiltered testimony. What they found deep within

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the earth change that it may change you to proceed

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with caution.

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Speaker 4: As the ancient Sydney is discovered, the cof to a

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hidden world.

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Speaker 5: H miles deep breaths in through the nose, out through

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the mouth. You're safe, Hi has you We're all here.

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Speaker 6: Safe, Nina? Did you did you feel that it wasn't

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just rock? It was angry, like it was trying to.

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Speaker 3: Crush us structural integrity holding minor rock fall, nothing critical.

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Speaker 6: Thumbs in.

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Speaker 3: Kit's a little crackly though, probably from the shockwave. Let

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me take a look there, just a loose connection. Good

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as new, always something.

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Speaker 7: Are we clear to proceed? Kyle?

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Speaker 3: Clear? The fissure continues. Looks like it narrows a bead

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and the air. It's changing.

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Speaker 8: The Earth a living, breathing entity.

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Speaker 9: We have merely scratched its surface, but now we delve

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into its very veins. The initial shock of the cabin

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has passed, leaving behind a profound sense of awe and

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a chilling realization. This journey is not merely a descent

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into geology, but into something far older, far more intelligent.

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This ancient text spoke of the Earth's inner architecture, a

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network of passages not formed by nature, but by design.

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We are stepping into a world shaped by the hands.

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Speaker 8: Unknown professor.

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Speaker 6: Look at this. The walls, they're different, non natural erosion,

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but these columns they're smooth, machined, and these walls, they're perfect,

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almost too perfect, like they were.

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Speaker 3: Laid here.

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Speaker 6: Like a giant subterranean circuit board.

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Speaker 7: Fascinating the salt formations, but with an unnatural regularity. The

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crystalline structures within the veins, they're conducting energy.

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Speaker 8: Wren.

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Speaker 7: Are you getting anything new from these structures.

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Speaker 10: Any patterns?

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Speaker 11: Hermitive, doctor Thorne, complex energy signatures far beyond anything we've seen,

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not geological, not even biological. It's organized like an ancient

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technology or a highly organized intelligence. The data streams are immense,

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almost overwhelming. Is like trying to download an entire civilization.

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Speaker 6: He's getting tighter.

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Speaker 3: The air.

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Speaker 6: It's heavy. I can bear the.

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Speaker 3: Brief.

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Speaker 6: It feels like the wolves are pressing.

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Speaker 5: In focus miles umber your anchor points. Breathe with me,

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in out. You're experience in claustrophobia, a natural reaction. It's

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the environment, not a threat.

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Speaker 8: This is it the network.

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Speaker 9: The legend spoke not just a city, but a vast,

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interconnected system. These are the arteries of Agartha, a testament

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to a civilization that understood the earth in ways we

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can only dream of the veins of the world as

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the Sumerians called them. They believed these channels carried a

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very they carried the very lifeblood of our planet. Miles

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struggles with claustrophobia, a battle thought not just against the

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narrowing passages, but within his own mind. Marries ever the scientists.

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He's only the next great.

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Speaker 12: Discovery, pushing us deeper, perhaps too deep.

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Speaker 8: And the echo, it watches, it listens, it learns.

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Speaker 9: Its whispers are no longer random, They're becoming personal.

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Speaker 8: They seem to know.

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Speaker 3: His fear.

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Speaker 6: Did you hear that?

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Speaker 8: It's it's laughing.

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Speaker 6: Hey, it's laughing at me. Heyden knows. I'm scared.

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Speaker 13: Just the acoustics, Miles. Everything sounds weird down here, like

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super echo. We probably just the air pressure messing with

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your ears.

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Speaker 7: Ren, Can you isolate those energy signatures? I want to

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know what powers this network, what build it? What kind

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of civilization could construct something on this scale.

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Speaker 11: I'm trying, doctor Thorne, but the data it's corrupted. It's

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fighting back. It's like it doesn't want to be understood.

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It's actively resisting my probes. It's intelligent, or.

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Speaker 3: It understands us perfectly better than we understand ourselves.

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Speaker 8: A hidden paradise.

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Speaker 9: Or a beautiful cage, the misspoke of an underworld's garden,

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a place of impossible beauty and terrifying life. This is

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a Gartha's breath, It's living heart, a world thriving in

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the eternal dark, untouched by a dying surface. The legends

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of the Inner Earth often describe lush, vibrant ecosystems sustained

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by geothermal energy. But this, this transcends all prophecy.

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Speaker 3: Incredible.

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Speaker 6: The light, it's bioluminescent, and the rock formations, they're crystalline.

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They pulse with delight, unlike anything I've ever seen. The

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mineral composition.

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Speaker 7: It's completely alien, unbelievable, a complete self sustaining ecosystem. The

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biosignature's run. What are they telling you? Are they carbon

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based silicon? Something entirely new?

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Speaker 11: There's They're complex, Doctor Throne, highly organized, not simple organisms.

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It's like a collective intelligence. The floor of the fauna.

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They're all interconnected. The energy output is staggering. It's a

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living network.

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Speaker 4: Look the thorn.

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Speaker 5: We need to proceed with extreme caution. We don't know

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the implications of disturbing this ecosystem. It could be fragile

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or hostal. We are guests here, not conquerors.

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Speaker 7: Nonsense, Lena, this is the discovery of a lifetime. We

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need samples, a median analysis precedent. Prepare the bio scanners.

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We need to categorize everything.

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Speaker 13: I want it, doctor Thorne. Just trying to get a

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good angle on this glowing moss. It's wild like Seriously,

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this would break the internet if we still had.

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Speaker 3: Internet, Doctor Thorn. Perhaps we should secure the perimeter first.

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This environment is unknown, and your sampling kit seems to

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have rolled away.

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Speaker 7: Hi, the perimeter is fine, the science isn't. Where's that

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sampling kit. I needed a tissue sample from that glowing fungus.

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It's pulsating.

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Speaker 3: Oh, looks like it slid into that crevice, doctor Thorn.

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I'll retrieve it must be the uneven ground. Here you go.

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Speaker 7: Thank you guy, now, if you'll excuse me.

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Speaker 9: Remarkable, isn't it, Miles a world within a world. A

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myth spoke of such a place hidden from the surface,

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preserving life.

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Speaker 8: Perhaps this is a Gartha's true form, not just.

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Speaker 9: A city, but a living, breathing sanctuary, a testament to

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the Earth's boundless capacity for life.

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Speaker 6: It's beautiful, but on satellite, those sounds are they part

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of the ecosystem or is it the echo? It feels

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like they're everywhere.

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Speaker 5: The auditory hallucinations are becoming more pronounced. This environment, it's

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affecting us all. The line between perception and reality is blurring.

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Speaker 8: The echo is its guardian, a record keeper, or something

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entirely alien feeding on our fear, blurring the lines between

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the natural and the supernatural.

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Speaker 9: This ecosystem is a marvel, but it holds a hidden malevolence,

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and we are its guest.

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Speaker 8: Or its prey.

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Speaker 9: It feels as though the entire world is a signal

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vast consciousness and we are merely.

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Speaker 8: A fleeting thought within it.

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Speaker 6: How much longer, professor? My throw It's like sandpaper. My

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head is pounding.

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Speaker 7: Our last water purifier failed an hour ago. The battery

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pack PI fixed earlier. It's completely dead, and the emergency

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rations are almost depleted. We need to find a water

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source now.

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Speaker 3: My readings are inconclusive. The gecological data suggests a subterranean aquifer,

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but the sensors are erratic. Could be interference from the echo,

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or perhaps the previous shockwave damage the internal calibration. I'll

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try recalibrating.

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Speaker 5: Everyone, conserve your energy.

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Speaker 4: Small SIPs.

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Speaker 5: If you have anything left, Miles, focus on your breathing.

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Dehydration will amplify any existing anxieties.

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Speaker 6: We need to stay calm anxieties. Ileana, I can't breathe.

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The walls are closing him. I can't, I can't do this.

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We're going to die down here, thirsty alone.

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Speaker 9: Trapped the abyss. It tests us, not just our bodies,

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but our minds. Miles, ever vulnerable, is now a target.

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The echo, a malevolent puppeteer plays at his deepest fears,

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turning his inner turmoil into a tormenting symphony. This is

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the human cost of discovery, the desperate gamble. We are

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stripped bare, our vulnerabilities exposed.

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Speaker 7: Wren anything, any sign of water. We're running out of time.

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Speaker 11: The readings are chaotic. It's like the echo is actively

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scrambling the hydrosensor.

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Speaker 6: I can't get a clear lock.

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Speaker 11: It's too much interference.

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Speaker 3: Perhaps we should try a different approach. My old military

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training taught me to trust my gut. When the tech fails,

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all scout ahead, the airfields different, just beyond that bend.

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Speaker 6: Make it stop, please, I can't, I can't take it.

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It's inside my.

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Speaker 5: Head, Miles, it's not real. It's the echo fight it.

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Speaker 8: Focus on my voice, Miles, look at me. It's trying

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to break you. Don't let it.

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Speaker 9: You're stronger than this. Your intuition. It's what brought us here.

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It will guide us through. Remember the ancient rivers, the

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hidden springs. They exist, We just have to find them.

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In the face of despair, a bond forms Miles, so

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fragilely yet so profoundly perceptive. His fear is a mirror

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to our own, and in the shared terror, a different

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kind of connection begins to brume, quiet strength, born of

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shared vulnerability. He is more than just a geo engineer.

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He is a sensitive soul, and in this place, sensitivity

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is both a curse.

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Speaker 3: And a gift. I found it, an aquifer, clear fresh water,

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just around the bend.

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Speaker 7: High, magnificent bastard, you did it. How did you know?

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Speaker 13: Water? Oh?

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Speaker 4: My god, water.

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Speaker 8: I thought we were done.

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Speaker 9: For see hope, even in the deepest dark, we found it.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, professor.

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Speaker 9: Truly Kai ever, the resourceful one saved us. A hero,

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or so it seems. The water crisis averted for now,

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but the psychological scars were made, and in the quiet

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moments when the terrors of signs, new connections are forged deeper.

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Speaker 8: Ones Miles with his raw.

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Speaker 9: Vulnerability, and I with my unwavering belief. Perhaps in this

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Abyss we're finding something more profound than Garth itself. Beyond

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the natural caverns, beyond the living ecosystem, lies the true

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marvel of Agartha a network, a labyrinth of lost cities,

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each a testament to an intelligence beyond our comprehension.

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Speaker 8: We are not merely exploring. We are uncovering a civilization.

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Speaker 9: The myth spoke of cities within the earth, not as

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simple caverns, but as intricate living structures built by beings

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who understood the very fabric of the planet.

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Speaker 7: Incredible, these structures, they're colossal, and the material it's unlike

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any known geological composition. It's glowing faintly from within.

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Speaker 8: Wren.

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Speaker 7: Are you getting any new energy readings, any structural schematics

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from these walls.

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Speaker 11: Yes, Doctor Throne, multiple energy signatures. They're interconnected, like a

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vast ancient power grid, and there are data streams, complex ones.

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It's a communication network and a navigation system. It's guiding us.

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Speaker 6: These patterns. They're not decorative they're structural and these conduits,

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they're designed to channel immense pressure. This isn't just architecture,

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it's gew engineering on a scale I can barely imagine.

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Look at the precision. It's beyond human capability, Doctor Thorne.

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Speaker 5: We need to mop authority understand its purpose before we proceed.

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There could be safeguards or traps. We don't know who

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build this or why.

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Speaker 7: Safeguards, Lena. This is a scientific gold mine we put forward, Wren.

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Can you interface with any of these data streams, see

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if you can get a schematic. We need to know

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where this network leads.

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Speaker 11: I can try, doctor Thorne. But the ecko that's constant

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presence here, it feels like it's watching and it's actively

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trying to block my attempts to access the network.

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Speaker 8: It's like a firewall, Professor.

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Speaker 3: This passage seems to fork up ahead. My skinner indicates

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the left path is more structurally sound, the right in

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showing some instability and a faint energy signature that's fluctuating.

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Speaker 8: Huh.

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Speaker 9: My text suggests that main thoroughfare the path of the

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agents would be to the right. It's described as a

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direct route into the central nexus.

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Speaker 3: The readings are quite clear, Professor, the right path could

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be dangerous, a recent collapse perhaps, or a trap.

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Speaker 7: We follow the data, Professor, Kai lead the way down

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the path. We can't risk a collapse as you.

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Speaker 3: Wish, doctor Thorne.

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Speaker 9: The network unfolds before us, a testament to a lost world,

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but every step deeper reveals new challenges. Kai, ever reliable,

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guides us. But in this place of ancient secrets, I

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find myself questioning everything, even the path we walk. The

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legends speak of trials of guardians. Is this merely a

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geological hazard or a deliberate test?

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Speaker 3: This section?

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Speaker 6: The pressure plants are intricate, these symbols. They're not just decorative.

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There's a sequence. If we misstep, the whole thing could

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collapse or activate something. I can guide us there. We

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need to precise with the thorn.

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Speaker 5: Miles is right. We need to slow down. Psychological too

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of this environment, combined with the physical strain, it's pushing us.

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All Your ambition is admirable, but a recklessness will get

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us killed. We're not just exploring, we're surviving.

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Speaker 7: We're on the cusp of the greatest discovery in human history. Lena,

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there's no time for caution. Progress demands risk.

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Speaker 8: WHOA What was that?

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Speaker 13: Why does it sound like a giant door closing?

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Speaker 3: Looks like an ancient security system, a pressure plate and

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it's activated.

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Speaker 6: We're trapped.

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Speaker 11: It's a trap. The energy signature is building. It's going

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to seal the passage, a full lockdown.

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Speaker 7: Miles, can you buypass it quickly?

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Speaker 6: I think so. There's a sequence of pressure points, civic rhythm,

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but it's complex and fast. We have seconds.

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Speaker 3: My comms unit is acting up again. It can't get

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a clear signal to ren for a remote override. Looks

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like we'll have to do this manually.

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Speaker 6: All right, Professor Lena Preston airis I need you to

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follow my exact movements? Pi Ran, be ready for anything

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if I miss.

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Speaker 9: You can do this, Miles. Trust your instincts. You've read

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these patterns before.

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Speaker 5: It's feeding on our fear. Don't let it, Miles.

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Speaker 3: Focus, Miles, you're our only shot.

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Speaker 6: Almost the last one.

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Speaker 7: Now you did it, Miles, brilliant, Absolutely.

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Speaker 12: Brilliant, Miles, You're truly remarkable. You've saved us all just

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geoengineering and a little luck.

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Speaker 9: Miles with the anxious geo engineer is transforming his brilliance,

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his resilience shines through the fear.

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Speaker 8: He's becoming indispensable, and in his.

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Speaker 9: Quiet strength, I see a future not just of humanity

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but for us, the network of a garth of stretches

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before us, vast and unknowable, and we, a small band

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of desperate explorers, press onward into the unknown, each step deeper,

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a step closer to the truth, or perhaps to our undoing.

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Speaker 14: With every million displays, we're down.

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Speaker 5: Here scraping at the storm of.

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Speaker 15: The world of his arrangements.

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Speaker 14: I see man go say a blue prince a sagas,

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but just say stay a whispers way still farm this denial,

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deespriss find a play a game for future. That's say god, fuck.

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Speaker 9: I just the Nasca sat.

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Speaker 14: Advise bah, it's feeding up set best mountains. They just

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traves actually show how a sensig are you wanting to

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chain buttify? Ever? The mountain say, and it's a song

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of madness, a song of prage, justin a machaine stuch

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on the ancient page, in.

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Speaker 10: The service politics the hidden hand. They send us down

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to find the future in a borrow buried land, the

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man in power of the kingdom.

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Speaker 6: Of the order to control.

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Speaker 14: But how do you the very earthy when it's just

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speeding your soul? Lay see a man the golden sat

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a blueprint to save a soul. I'm not just heal

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the static, the whispers waiting for us till fall lessens

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it come help. It's just denial. The test, final fare

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agave a for future. That song God floating in nothings

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got test and a byes back. It's feeding on our

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fair and it's foult tonight. Just track, Joe, want a seer, you.

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Speaker 6: Want to jesting?

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Speaker 14: But eye or as the mountain say.

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Speaker 5: And it's a song of madness, a song of rage.

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Speaker 14: I'm just justing on a set, stuck on an accentage, in.

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Speaker 15: The belly of the beast, with the world on its

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last breath, we found a fragile truth just past the

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edge of death, a different kind of strength and shared vulnerability.

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Speaker 10: A human life, a counterpoint to the chaos of the sea.

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Speaker 15: This saint for glory, not the fame, just.

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Speaker 14: To gas for aer, A final, fragile, desperate act in

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the hard of dispense. On this last your future, goll

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this stop, I see through the sea bottle, the greatest

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safe from.

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Speaker 8: All the citizen.

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Speaker 14: Shut stop playing It's on a shape, Go walk at it,

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for she just watching a sall