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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="b7295ee89880a98da8dbcc9a87fc5e68""I'm fine, you don't have to wait for me." He patted my head. "Now go before you get caught."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4c0f7591c00a409e4a6e444b270d1044"Mr. C crossed his arms. "Wow that was bad. I'll give you three points for trying and two for entertaining me."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="32447d96c84886d6a5ea3c0fe361eebc"Alexei's POVL/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e10e6264dc4d931b0270fa945f98f4aa""The problem is the timer and mantas." Cam explained. "The layout changing is more annoying than problemic. While the mantas are relentless."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="357770abe6faa42a0be6a4a5376da098""Either way, we'll have to be more careful." Kya stated. "Cam, is there a way to matizle the vehciles faster?"br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /He shook his head, "As long as Emi uses the termial, I can't do anything. Including malizating the vechiles."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="d15ca35aa9b8cf402d74bb7059d4d977"The next few mintues were spent reviewing everything we knew about Sector 5 and the hidden sectors. For now Sector 5 will be our partuiate, with the hidden sectors being secondary. Sector 5 offers more chances to get information about Xana. The hidden sectors appear to be like the desesrt and other sectors. For now, there's no need to explore the as much./p
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