Ground Stars / 地上星 · Ch.17 第17章 独赴异鼠之巢 -2
第17章 独赴异鼠之巢 –2
Chapter 17: Into the Nest of Alien Rats Alone –2
邵敏的感知视角中，无数管道纵横交错，宛若立体蛛网。
From Shao Min’s perspective of perception, countless pipes crisscrossed and interlaced, resembling a three-dimensional spiderweb.
寒气卡通虚影很容易便找到了被杨子藏所击杀的老鼠尸首，顺著血迹路线一路追逐。
The cold air hologram easily located the corpse of the rat slain by Yang Zicang, following the trail of blood unrelentingly.
略过几处怪物尸首后，逐渐可以看到一只只被血腥与同类叫声所吸引而来的怪物宾士的身影。
Bypassing a few monster carcasses, they gradually spotted figures of beasts sprinting into view, drawn by the stench of blood and the calls of their own kind.
「不愧是 b 级交错地所形成，这异度空间居然有这么多怪物。」
“No wonder this is born from a B-level overlap zone—this peculiar space actually has so many monsters.”
寒气虚影不断往下。
The cold hologram descended ever deeper.
金属通道四五十米的曲折深处。
In the twists and bends of the metal channel, some forty to fifty meters down.
杨子藏正夺命狂奔，身后一大群老鼠宛若一群群猎狗，从各处蜂拥而至，一眼望去不下五六十只。
Yang Zicang was fleeing for his life, with a massive swarm of rats behind him, like packs of hunting dogs surging from all directions—at a glance, no fewer than fifty or sixty of them.
因为动静很大，周围已经有越来越多的变异老鼠从上下左右的各种钢铁管道赶来，宛若奔腾的怪物军队。
The ruckus was so great that more and more mutated rats converged from steel pipes above, below, left, and right, like a charging army of monsters.
前方十来米外是片断裂的管道。
About ten meters ahead lay a broken pipeline.
周围空间坍塌，下方深不见底，仅有对面高处十来米的距离有半截冒出来的巨型钢管。
The surrounding space had collapsed, with a bottomless abyss beneath, and only a half-extended giant steel pipe protruding ten meters or so above on the opposite side.
「吱吱吱！」
“Squeak, squeak, squeak!”
「吼吼吼吼吼呜！」
“Roar, roar, roar—ooohh!”
杨子藏气急，为什么那小子在这里待一天一夜都没事，自己一来就引动了这么多怪物。
Yang Zicang was exasperated—why was it that when that guy stayed here for a whole day and night, nothing happened, yet the moment he showed up, he stirred up so many monsters?
没办法了，不及细想，望了眼身后密密麻麻冒著寒光的眼睛，在梁喜紧张的心情中冲向了前方的断口之处。
With no time to think, he glanced back at the densely packed glowing eyes behind him, then, amid Liang Xi’s anxious anticipation, he charged straight toward the broken opening ahead.
[杨哥…]
[Brother Yang…]
梁喜只觉得是自己害了这个人。
Liang Xi felt that she was the one who had brought this upon him.
感知画面中的杨子藏根本没有停下脚步的意思，他速度奇快的冲向管道边缘，毫无减速动作。
In the sensory feed, Yang Zicang showed no sign of stopping; he dashed toward the edge of the pipeline with lightning speed, making no movement to slow down.
梁喜下意识闭眼，不忍看这一幕。
Liang Xi instinctively shut her eyes, unable to bear witnessing this scene.
身后突然涌来寒意，一道诡异的双生卡通形象从隧道后方的高处涌来！
Suddenly, a chilling aura surged from behind—a sinister pair of cartoon-like figures emerged from the high shadows deep within the tunnel!
初级尸跳！
Elementary Corpse Leap!
杨子藏双腿下蹲，一跃而起。
Yang Zicang squatted down low, then sprang into the air.
外界，邵敏看到那么多老鼠如疯狗般群起，哪怕他不在现场，都能感受到那份胆寒，暗自发誓绝不进入这鬼地方一步。
Outside, Shao Min watched as the swarm of rats rose up like rabid dogs. Even though he wasn’t there, he could still feel the bone-chilling dread and silently vowed never to set foot in this godforsaken place.
然而当他看到那速度比全力冲刺的老鼠还快的身影后，他心中猛然跳动了下。
But when he saw a figure moving faster than the rats at their full sprint, his heart skipped a beat.
这人的速度好快。
This person’s speed is incredible.
看来他的能力并不仅是传闻中的风场，应该还有加速。
It seems his ability isn’t just the rumored wind field—he must also have enhanced speed.
「风场和加速吗，其实也算是不错的辅助能力。 前提是，没有力场的存在。」邵敏遗憾的想到。
“Wind Field and Acceleration? Those are actually decent support abilities—assuming there’s no Force Field involved.” Shao Min thought with regret.
他心中一叹，「种子」应该省下了，马超亦不用再亲自出手。
He sighed inwardly, the “seed” should be saved, and Matt Chao wouldn’t need to make a personal move.
哪怕有万年的时序本金，在这里也会被密集的怪物们消耗，这个跟张飞般傲慢的新人已经完蛋了啊。
Even with a millennium’s worth of Chronos principal, it would be drained here by the dense waves of monsters; this newcomer, as arrogant as Zhang Fei, is done for.
「这就是，不懂敬畏这世界的下场。」 他默道。
“This is the price for not fearing this world,” he muttered to himself.
刚说完，邵敏便从卡通幻影的视角中见到，那道年轻的矫健身影在断裂的管道边缘不合常理的一跃而起！
No sooner had he spoken than Shao Min saw, through the cartoon phantom’s perspective, that youthful, agile figure leaping impossibly from the edge of a broken pipe!
「什么！」
“What?!”
仿佛电影里劣质特效的冲刺动作，杨子藏双手拖拉荡漾著，仅凭双腿一曲便能跃起七八米高！
Like the shoddy special effects of a sprint in a movie, Yang Zicang’s arms dragged through the air as he rebounded, bending his legs just once to vault seven or eight meters high!
但对面高处冒出的管道口还差好几米。
But the pipe opening looming high ahead was still several meters away.
「还是会掉下去吗！」 绍敏紧张的看著。
“Is he going to fall?” Shao Min watched nervously.
嗡嗡！
Buzz!
数道数米长的鞭影席卷而来，杨子藏低吼一声，身体呼地一下再次冲起，鞭影擦著他的脚底划过。
Several meters-long whip-like shadows lashed in, and with a low growl, Yang Zicang’s body shot upward again, the shadows scraping beneath his feet.
空中二次加速！
A second acceleration mid-air!
砰地声，杨子藏双手猛然抓住管道边缘。
With a thud, Yang Zicang’s hands caught the pipe’s edge.
见到这一幕的邵敏满脸疑惑，这也可以？ 难怪昨晚回来，听到了许多关于这新人的传言。
Watching this, Shao Min was utterly baffled—this was possible? No wonder he’d heard so many rumors about this newcomer when he came back last night.
「哼，但你还是会死。」
“Hmph, but you’ll still die.”
邵敏目光转而暗沉。
Shao Min’s gaze turned dark.
他控制寒气双生子迅速冲出怪物们聚集的大管道，往斜上方冲去。
He commanded the Twin Frostborn to swiftly dash out of the large pipe where the monsters had gathered and charge diagonally upward.
在杨子藏刚爬上去一只腿时，这团寒雾几乎与之背部重叠般，将它们手上托举的雾气月台Moexl塞入了杨子藏的头颅之内。
Just as Yang Zicang managed to lift one leg up, the chilling mist, almost overlapping with his back, stuffed the Moxel platform—its misty moon held in their hands—into Yang Zicang’s skull.
「成功了！」
“Success!”
邵敏暗自一笑，结束了能力的运用。 这可是很消耗时序的。
Shao Min smirked inwardly, ceasing the use of her ability. This consumption of Chronos was no small feat.
杨子藏感觉到脑袋一片寒意，似有强烈的情绪干扰出现。
A surge of icy cold shot through Yang Zicang’s head, accompanied by an intense emotional disturbance.
低头看了眼下方，几道追逐的老鼠来不及刹住速度，跟他一般跃出通道口后，摔落进了黑暗的深处，许久才听到淡淡的落地回声。
Glancing down below, a few pursuing rats, unable to brake in time, leaped out of the passage along with him and plunged into the profound darkness below. It was a long while before he heard the faint echo of their impacts.
深邃的下方，摔死的怪物尸体身上冒出无人可见的黑烟上浮，又缓慢消散。
In the deep abyss, the crushed bodies of the monsters emitted an invisible black smoke that rose slowly before dissipating into nothingness.
｛杨哥，我太崇拜你了！ 但是，刚刚好像有什么东西在你背后出现。 像是雾气。｝
{Brother Yang, I totally worship you! But, I think something just appeared behind you. Like, a kind of mist.}
杨子藏吃力爬上这长久无人进入的坑道后，转头看了眼身后，哪里有什么雾气。
Struggling to climb into the long-unvisited pit, Yang Zicang turned to look over his shoulder. There was no trace of mist at all.
他心中一沉，结合著刚才的那种情绪感受，恐怕自己著了什么人的暗算。
His heart sank. Combing that feeling with the emotional ordeal from a moment ago, he feared he had fallen prey to some sort of scheme.
「吱吱！」
“Squeak!”
「吼呜！」
“Growl!”
怪物们聚集，狂躁的打著转。
The monsters gathered, pacing about in a manic frenzy.
杨子藏不管身后的声音，他先检查了下身前的通道，灰尘很厚，其内安静无比。
Yang Zicang ignored the sounds behind him, first checking the passage ahead—thick dust blanketed the ground, and a dead silence reigned within.
这上面应该暂时没有危险了。
It seemed safe enough up here for now.
随即，他便看向身后那些拥挤在管道口朝著自己嘶吼的怪物们。
Only then did he turn to look at the creatures clogging the pipe exit, howling at him.
「呵。」 杨子藏自己都不清楚，这笑容有多么的邪恶，此刻他只觉得胸中有股强烈的嗜血欲望，只想马上给与报复。
“Heh.” Yang Zicang himself didn’t realize just how sinister that smile was. At that moment, all he felt was a surging bloodlust in his chest, an overwhelming desire to exact vengeance immediately.
不管它们为何发狂，这恰恰是最好的收割时机。
Whatever had driven them into this frenzy, this was precisely the perfect time to reap.
他从衣兜内掏出一把准备好的小石子，胸前光圈浮现。
He pulled out a handful of prepared pebbles from his pocket, as a glowing aperture form ed before his chest.
「死吧！」
“Die!”
十来道曲线轨迹划过错落空间。
A dozen arcing trajectories streaked through the chaotic space.
砰砰砰砰！
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
精准的每一击都爆掉了一只怪物老鼠的头颅，下方洞口直接化为屠宰场一般。
Each precise strike blasted the head of a monstrous rat, turning the opening below into a veritable slaughterhouse.
Moexl的心念之声响起，令杨子藏振奋不已。
Moxel’s mental voice rang out, invigorating Yang Zicang immensely.
又是两把石子抛出，怪物们见势不妙后撤许多。
He tossed out two more handfuls of stones; the monsters, sensing the danger, scrambled back en masse.
[我共计收获了 521.7N。]
[I have harvested a total of 521.7 N.]
「哈！ 真是天堂。」
“Ha! This truly is paradise.”
虽然这些鼠怪都不及梁喜所遇的那怪物大，但胜在数量多，时序密集收割而至。
Though none of these rat monsters matched the size of the beast Liang Xi had encountered, their sheer abundance compensated—allowing Chronos to reap a dense and ceaseless harvest.
果然有付出就有收获，这一次的生死危机，直接获得了五百多年的时序。
Indeed, there are gains for every effort; this life-or-death crisis directly netted over five hundred years of Chronos.
满足了Moexl嗜血情绪的杨子藏，精神逐渐平静了些。
Yang Zicang, having satisfied Moxel’s bloodlust, gradually calmed down somewhat.
虽然有部分被吓走，但下方新的怪物还在涌来。
Though some were frightened off, new monsters were still surging up from below.
情绪平静些的杨子藏此刻再看那下方的骇人场面，以及弥漫在空气中的恶臭味道，他只觉得胃中有些翻滚。
With his emotions somewhat steadier, Yang Zicang now looked again at the horrifying scene below and the foul stench permeating the air; he only felt his stomach churning.
「受不了了。」
“I can’t take it anymore.”
他赶紧转身跑进通道，再晚一秒都会吐出来。
He quickly turned and ran into the passage, knowing he would vomit if he delayed another second.
[杨哥，好想马上到你那边去啊！]
[Brother Yang, I really want to rush over to you right now!]
梁喜看得热血澎湃。
Liang Xi watched with surging excitement.
在这边待了一个月的他哪怕已经习惯了怪物的尸体画面，但通过感知视角看到这一幕依旧震撼不已。
Even though he had stayed here for a month and was used to scenes of monster corpses, witnessing this through his perception angle was still breathtakingly shocking.
这少年已经了然，自己这杨大哥拥有不得了的能力，他竟然能同时控制那么多石子的轨迹和打击范围。
The young man had now realized that his Brother Yang possessed an incredible ability—he could simultaneously control the trajectories and strike ranges of so many stones.
而此刻顺著管道前行的杨子藏却心中暗叹，还好昨晚莫名奇妙获得了那跳跃的能力，否则就死定了。
But Yang Zicang, now advancing along the pipeline, sighed inwardly. Fortunately, he had inexplicably obtained that leaping ability last night; otherwise, he would have been dead for sure.
不愧是罗鑫队长叮嘱过的危险之地。
No wonder Captain Luo Xin had warned this was a dangerous place.
感受到技能的好用后，他努力回想著噩梦时的讯息，当时似乎听到了什么声音。
After feeling how useful the skill was, he tried hard to recall the information from his nightmare; at that time, he seemed to have heard some kind of sound.
[四边形，我昨晚… 做噩梦前是不是说了什么？]
“Quad, last night… did I say anything before I had the nightmare?”
他试著问到。
He tried asking.
[我居然还妄想回忆起已经遗忘的内容吗？ 噢，对于伟大的四边形来说，这也有些麻烦…]
“Am I seriously trying to recall something I’ve already forgotten? Oh, even for the great Quad, that’s a bit troublesome…”
杨子藏感觉自己不由自主开始更深入的回忆，但什么也没想到。
Yang Zicang felt himself involuntarily slipping into deeper recollection, but nothing came to mind.
[让我想想，昨日的每日总结内容是什么…]
“Let me think, what was the content of yesterday’s daily summary…”
总结！
The summary!
杨子藏灵光一闪，有了这个由头，就像是捅破了窗户纸般，他一下回忆起来一些内容。
A spark of insight flashed through Yang Zicang’s mind. With this hook, as if he’d pierced through a paper window, he suddenly recalled some parts.
是每日总结！
It was the daily summary!
他眉毛扭成一团，首先是自己达标了每小时的平均收获，然后还有个未达标的总结提醒，是什么…
His eyebrows twisted together. First, there was that he’d met the average yield per hour, and then there was a reminder about an unmet target—what was it…
[我昨日未达标什么来著。]
“What hadn’t I met my target on yesterday?”
前方的黑暗中亮起萤光。
A fluorescence lit up in the darkness ahead.
杨子藏穿过这通道后，看到个洞穴，其中的壁穴上以及墙角长出许多拇指长的蓝色晶石。
After passing through this tunnel, Yang Zicang saw a cave. In the wall niches and along the corners sprouted many finger-length blue crystals.
「魔晶？」 他只是扫了眼这些晶石，目光就落在了洞穴旁的陈旧铁桌上。
“Mana crystals?” He just swept a glance over these crystals before his gaze landed on an old, rusty iron table beside the cave.
它已经遗弃了不知多少年，上面的灰尘与沙石几乎将桌子这个角落尽数埋没。
It had been abandoned for who knows how many years, the dust and sand nearly burying that corner of the table entirely.
杨子藏试著一只手捂住嘴，另一只手将这些灰石泥土掀到地上，但用手一推，隐藏于其中的仅剩骸骨的半截尸体咚地声倒在地上。
Yang Zicang tried to cover his mouth with one hand while brushing the dust, gravel, and soil onto the ground with the other, but as he pushed with his hand, the skeletal half-corpse hidden beneath thudded as it fell to the floor.
它怀中的小盒子也随之掉落在地。
The small box nestled in its arms tumbled down with it.
[我找到了‘书册‘的踪迹。]
[I have found traces of the ‘Tome.‘]
杨子藏听著心念之声，伸出手从灰尘中捏起那只小木盒，将它打开后，其中露出一张材质怪异的银白卷曲纸张。
Hearing the voice of thought, Yang Zicang reached out, picked up the small wooden box from the dust, and opened it, revealing a strange, silver-white curled piece of paper with an unusual texture.
它就像是地球上某些国度的钱币材料，有著繁复优雅的暗纹，上面是未知文明的文字。
It resembled the material of currencies from certain countries on Earth, intricate with elegant cryptic patterns, upon which was written in characters of an unknown civilization.
「阿梁，你知道书册是什么吗？」
“A Liang, do you know what the Tome is?”
｛书册？ 是书页吗。 唔，我好像听人说过总部的人在搜集它，有人说它关系到这个城市和我们出现的原因。｝
{Tome? Is it a page? Hmm, I recall someone mentioning that headquarters has been collecting them, and there’s talk that it’s connected to the city and why we exist.}
随后，梁喜惊呼起来。
Then, Liang Xi exclaimed in surprise.
｛啊，杨大哥，难道你找到书页了？ 总部好像说过，如果找到任何一页页面，都可以获得丰厚的奖励欸！｝
{Ah, Brother Yang, did you actually find the page? I’ve heard headquarters say that anyone who finds even one page can be handsomely rewarded!}
杨子藏的心一跳，看来这是个非常重要的东西，连总部的人都在搜集它们。
Yang Zicang’s heart skipped a beat—it seemed this was an extremely important item, collected even by those at headquarters.
它肯定隐藏著关于这个世界的深层秘密。
It undoubtedly concealed profound secrets about this world.
或许通过它们自己还能找到回去的可能。
Maybe, through them, he could still find a way back.
[这是其它世界的文字，我作为伟大的四边形，也仅仅只是知晓：如果获得蕴含血脉之环的物品，方可借其读懂它。]
[These are the writings of another world. Even I, the great Quad, only know this: only by obtaining an item containing the Ring of Blood can one decipher them.]
血脉之环？
Ring of Blood?
杨子藏听著这心念之声，他暗暗记下了这个词汇。
Yang Zicang listened to this telepathic voice and silently memorized the term.
这里像是此人的地下书房，周围还有塌陷的铁质书架，可惜上面的书已经化为灰烬了。
This place seemed like an underground study, littered with collapsed iron bookshelves; unfortunately, the books on them had turned to ash.
杨子藏挨个找去，终于在一堆触碰下便会毁坏的书籍中找到了本坚硬封面的异世之书。
Yang Zicang searched one by one until, among the moldering books that crumbled at a touch, he found a tome from another world with a sturdy cover.
它由类似锡与黑铁的金属所铸造，每一页都是如此。
It was forged from a metal resembling tin and black iron, every page crafted the same way.
翻开它的第一页，上面是个充满诡异气氛的怪物雕塑图像。
Opening its first page, he saw an image of a monstrous sculpture steeped in an eerie aura.
后面的页面中除了那些未知文字外，还绘制著各种符号、矿植物形象，像是某种事物的炼制过程，最后几页有著大篇幅的图腾与星座图案，最后是副魔法阵。
The following pages, aside from those unknown scripts, depicted various sigils and images of minerals and plants, resembling the refinement process of something. The final pages featured extensive totems and constellation patterns, ending with a magical array.
看到魔法阵的瞬间，杨子藏感觉脑袋一晕。
The moment he saw the magical array, Yang Zicang felt his head spin.