Ground Stars / 地上星 · Ch.55 第55章 完结的契约与实验 -1
第55章 完结的契约与实验 –1
Chapter 55: The Consummated Contract and Experiment – 1
这壹次出海，杨子藏聚集了大量的，堆积如山的灵物战器。
This time out at sea, Yang Zicang had gathered a mountain of spiritual artifacts and war tools.
它们装满了两艘暗红色的大船。
They filled two dark red ships to the brim.
「喂，妳把我叫来干嘛，我时间可是紧张得很，没办法像妳这么逍遥欸。」
“Hey, why did you drag me here? My time’s tight—I don’t have the luxury to lounge around like you.”
穿得壹半似野人壹半又有著布匹包裹的莫里，不情愿的叉著腰说道。自己可是在突破的关键时刻，而且身上可是没几百年时序了。
Morris, dressed half like a savage and half wrapped in cloth, stood akimbo with reluctance. He was in the critical moment of a breakthrough, and besides, he hadn’t seen a single Chronos in centuries.
「这次妳还必须得跟上才行。」
“This time, you have to come along whether you like it or not.”
「为什么。」
“Why?”
「还记得我说过的第二个实验吗？」杨子藏说道。
“Remember the second experiment I mentioned?” Yang Zicang said.
「啥？」莫里有点蒙，什么实验。
“What?” Morris was a bit bewildered. What experiment?
他快速回忆著。
He quickly racked his brain.
在这里有个好处便是，虽然经历了漫长时光，却又仿佛壹切都在刚刚才发生过。因此莫里想了会儿，还真给想起了三十多年前初次与杨子藏相识的那些日子。
One good thing here was that, despite the vast span of time, it felt as if everything had just happened. After pondering a moment, Morris actually recalled the days over thirty years ago when he first met Yang Zicang.
「啊，妳说当年看雪的虫子？妳到底想干嘛，壹个实验做几十年？」
“Ah, you mean the bug that watched the snow back then? What the hell are you up to, dragging out an experiment for decades?”
「我原以为要上千年的。」
“I thought it would take a thousand years.”
莫里内心震动了下。
Morris’ heart quivered.
这就是完整邮徽的能力，身边的这个家伙…
So this was the power of a complete Postage Emblem—this guy beside him…
「妳到底想做什么。」
“What exactly are you trying to do?”
「马上妳就会知道。」
“You’ll find out soon enough.”
两艘航行在海上的船，停泊在壹片海水颜色有些不同的地方。它下面偶尔会有海水泡冒上来。
Two ships sailing on the sea came to rest in a stretch of water with a slightly different hue. Bubbles occasionally rose from below.
「可以开始了，小伙子们！」
“Let’s begin, lads!”
随著杨子藏壹声令下，船上的水手们咬喝著将成箱成箱的灵物战器倒入海中。
At Yang Zicang’s command, the sailors heaved and grunted as they tossed crate after crate of spirit artifacts and weapons into the sea.
「随我下来。」杨子藏脱下外套噗通跳入水中
“Follow me down.” Yang Zicang shed his coat and plunged into the water with a splash.
莫里看得心疼的咬咬牙，也跟著跳了下去。
Morris winced, his heart aching, but steeled himself and jumped in after him.
逐渐杨子藏两人在海底黑暗中，看见壹片暗红的光芒——前方的海底火山口岩浆喷涌。
Gradually, in the pitch-black depths of the sea, Yang Zicang and the others saw a faint crimson glow—molten lava spewing from the submarine volcanic crater ahead.
｛火山？哇哦，好美。妳的实验到底是干什么啊。｝
{A volcano? Wow, it’s beautiful. What exactly is your experiment about?}
[我想给死去的恶魇，重新赋予生命。]
[I want to breathe new life into the dead Nightmares.]
｛什么？！｝
{What?!}
被海水挤压变形的莫里感觉这人疯了。
Morris, his features distorted by the water pressure, felt this man had lost his mind.
｛好不容易搞死的东西，妳还想复活？妳不会是电影里的反派吧。｝
{We barely killed those things, and you want to revive them? Don’t tell me you’re the villain from a movie.}
[别废话，快帮我给它们注入时序本金，来吧。]
[Stop the nonsense, just help me inject them with Chronos principal. Come on.]
海水发出轰鸣。无数带著辉光的暗沈色灵物战器，如同群游鱼射向岩浆正中高耸金属柱。
The sea roared. Countless shimmering, dark-hued spirit artifacts and weapons shot forth like a school of fish, straight towards the towering metal pillar at the center of the molten crater.
那上面有个散发著微弱红光的石头，如同红色琥珀。灵物战器门聚集紧贴著它，战器快速变得软化，像是被里面无形之物吸取了生命的精华。
Atop it rested a faintly glowing red stone, like a piece of red amber. The spirit weapon realm tools clung tightly to it, rapidly softening as if their life essence were being drained by something formless within.
[灵物战器的残念正在吞噬属于我的时序。]
[The lingering resentment of the Spirit Weapon Realm Tools is devouring the Chronos that belongs to me.]
这就是火焰恶魇的结晶，死灰复燃是火焰的特性！
This is the crystallized essence of the Flame Nightmare—the inevitability of rekindling from dying embers, the intrinsic nature of fire!
时间壹分壹秒过去，深入岩浆内忙坏了的莫里终于有时间歇口气。
As time ticked by, Morris, who had been busied deep within the magma, finally found a chance to catch his breath.
｛妳到底要做什么？｝
{What exactly are you trying to do?}
杨子藏的沉默了下，他道：
Yang Zicang fell silent for a moment, then said:
[还记得那两只在我掌中的知了吗。]
[Do you remember those two cicadas that once rested in my palm?]
｛What？｝
{What?}
[它们很听话的在我手中待了很久。可能是我精神力强度的原因，当时我能感觉到，被我用寿命延续过的它们，将我当成了…亲人。]
“They stayed obediently in my hands for a long time. Perhaps because of my spiritual strength, I could sense that, as I extended their lives with my own, they saw me as… family.”
亲人！
Family!
被疑窦包裹的莫里，霎那间壹道闪电划过脑海。
A flash of lightning suddenly streaked through Morris’s mind, who was shrouded in doubts.
｛妳妳，妳想收服只恶魇？｝
“Y—you, you want to tame a Demon Haunt?”
[我不仅是要复活恶魇，我要复活的，是忠于我的恶魇！]
“I’m not just reviving a Demon Haunt—I’m reviving one that is loyal to me!”
｛妳真是个可怕的家伙。｝
“You really are a terrifying person.”
……
日子壹天天过去，杨子藏盘腿漂浮在这片熔岩区域上方。
Days passed one after another, and Yang Zicang sat cross-legged, drifting above this molten lava region.
这壹日他忽地感受到了丝微弱注视感。
This day, he suddenly sensed a faint gaze upon him.
双目刷地睁开。
He snapped his eyes open.
似乎有双小小的，纯净的目光正毫不掩饰地注视著自己。
It seems there was a tiny, pure gaze watching him without the slightest restraint.
[灵物战器的残念诞生了空白神识，它想吃点什么。]
[The remnant will of a spiritual weapon war vessel gave birth to a blank divine consciousness, and it wants to eat something.]
杨子藏从那块晶石内感受到了壹丝活力。
Yang Zicang felt a flicker of vitality from that crystal.
所谓死灰复燃，果然作为火焰诞生的恶魇。他兴奋的想到。在火之恶魇吞入足够多的同类与寿命后，真开始第三次复活了！
Sparks reignite from dying embers—sure enough, it was an ‘evil nightmare’ born of flame. He thought with excitement. After the fire-evil nightmare swallowed enough kin and lifespan, it had truly begun its third revival!
但是这第三次的复活，好难，这都过去多少年了。
But this third revival… how difficult it was. How many years had already passed?
想吃点什么…杨子藏想著内心诞生的心念。
It wants to eat something… Yang Zicang mused over the thought that had arisen in his heart.
跟恶魇打了几千年交道的他当然知道，恶魇第壹二次吞噬的生物决定了它的智慧程度。
Having dealt with evil nightmares for millennia, he knew well that the first and second beings the nightmare devoured determined its level of intelligence.
此刻获得新生的它，按理来说吞掉个人类是最好的，但那种事情，哪怕是在梦中杨子藏也自觉得干不出来。
Now reborn, logically speaking, devouring a human would do it the most good—but even in his dreams, Yang Zicang felt he could hardly bring himself to do such a thing.
被岩浆映红的黑暗海底。半透明石蛋般的岩石内，白色的小狼头形火蜈蚣在里面蜷缩著。它的嘴边，有些几道如乳牙的白点。因为岩浆光影的晃动，看不清到底是六个还是四个。
On the dark seabed illuminated by the crimson glow of magma, inside a semi-transparent rock resembling an egg, a small wolf-headed centipede with flames lay curled up. Beside its mouth were a few milky-white dots, like milk teeth. With the magma’s wavering shadows, it was impossible to tell if there were six or four.
[它对我产生著绝对信任。]
[It holds absolute trust in me.]
[它询问我是否可以吃掉多余的「同类」。]
[It asks me if it can devour the “surplus kin.”]
多余的？来到这淡白色石头跟前的杨子藏，看向晶莹石头内这有点如小蛇般的蜈蚣状枝节身影瞬间，这白色半透明的怪物猛然从石卵中冲出。
Surplus? The moment Yang Zicang stepped before the pale white stone and gazed at the vaguely serpentine, centipede-like segmented shadow within the crystalline rock, the white, translucent monster suddenly burst forth from the stone egg.
海水没有丝毫波动，可是杨子藏感觉精神世界仿佛刮起了台风。
Not a ripple stirred the seawater, yet Yang Zicang felt as though a typhoon had erupted in his spiritual world.
它是纯粹的精神体！
It was a purely spiritual entity!
它赫然拔高。
It abruptly towered upward.
念龙… 杨子藏在这瞬间想到壹个名字。
Nianlong… In that instant, a single name flashed through Yang Zicang’s mind.
嗡隆隆！
Rumble!
怪物豁然变得宛若三层楼般高，那庞大的巨口弯曲著壹口向下吞向杨子藏。整个被岩浆映红的海底，瞬间海水城镇卷动，在乱流中混乱散开而去。
The monster suddenly loomed as tall as a three-story building, its massive, maw curved as it lunged downward to swallow Yang Zicang whole. Beneath the magma-lit seabed, the water itself churned, and the submerged town began unraveling in chaotic currents.
远方在海水高压下修行的莫里感受到了什么动静。
Far away, Morris, cultivating under the crushing pressure of the deep sea, sensed a disturbance.
他快速赶去，随后恐惧的瞧见，壹只虚无的怪物正张嘴吞噬了漂浮在岩浆上的身材欣长的青年。
He rushed over in haste, only to witness in terror a phantom-like monster opening its maw to engulf the slender, elongated young man floating atop the magma.
｛精神能量…不，是传说中的念力体？！｝
{Spiritual energy… No, is it a legendary psychic entity?!}
莫里感觉到壹种心慌。
A surge of panic gripped Morris.
｛快跑啊，妳在干什么！念力能伤到妳！｝他大喊道。
{“Run, what are you doing! Psychic power can harm you!”} he shouted.
杨子藏没有理会莫里的呼唤，刚刚自己的确想跑，可是在做出动作的前壹瞬他强行控制住了自己的下意识反应。
Yang Zicang ignored Morris’s calls. Earlier, he had indeed wanted to flee, but in the instant before making a move, he forcefully restrained his instinctive reaction.
对方绝对信任著自己。
The other party placed absolute trust in him.
如狼般的巨口壹口将自己的头颅嵌住。
The wolf-like maw clamped down on his head in one swift bite.
莫里震惊的看著那里，那家伙，那个拥有四边形的家伙，居然就这么轻易的…
Morris stared in shock from afar. That guy—the one with the Quad—had been so easily…
咕咚。
Gulp.
这怪物的喉咙响了下，它的头壹下拔高，口中嵌著片扭曲的虚影。
The monster’s throat rumbled as its head suddenly jerked upward, with a twisted phantom of an image clenched in its mouth.
这片虚影来自杨子藏的头颅。
This phantom came from Yang Zicang’s head.
蜈蚣往上死死扯住它，这虚影却如同被强力胶水粘住了般在头颅内。杨子藏此刻痛苦万分，他感觉自己的精神似乎被人在往外拔出。
The centipede pulled it upward with all its might, but the phantom stuck to his skull like superglue. At that moment, Yang Zicang was in agony, feeling as though his spirit was being violently yanked out.
但杨子藏也能感觉到，头内壹直隐约存在的某个东西才是这复活恶魇的目标。
Yet Yang Zicang also sensed that something lurking vaguely within his head was the true target of this resurrected nightmare.
嘭！
Bang!
蜈蚣恶魇的精神体将头猛甩，壹口将死嵌在杨子藏头颅内的「东西」拔出，猛甩！海水轰然闷响。
The centipede nightmare’s mental being tossed its head, violently ripping the wrenching “thing” from within Yang Zicang’s skull, then flung it hard! The seawater boomed with a muffled roar.
壹栋庞大的地铁站台快速展开，宛若交错幕景诞生般，出现在了这儿。
A massive subway station platform unfurled swiftly, appearing here as if plucked from a cross-cutting scene from a dream.
「念力地铁站？」
“The psychic subway station?”
……
站台四处，无数杨子藏的虚影在走动。
Throughout the platform, countless phantom afterimages of Yang Zicang wandered.
有的只有头漂浮，有的则只有手脚，还有小时候的杨子藏，以及穿著各种不同衣物，背著书包或篮球的杨子藏。
Some were merely floating heads, others only limbs, there was a younger Yang Zicang, and versions of him wearing various clothes, carrying schoolbags or basketballs.
但这些人中，还有另壹道不同男人的身影！
Yet amidst these figures, there was another silhouette of a different man!
[我的精神正在崩溃边缘。]
[My mind is on the verge of collapse.]
像是死过去壹次般，杨子藏痛苦捂住头。
As if he had just been through death, Yang Zicang clutched his head in agony.
｛妳有没有事啊。｝
{Are you alright?}
莫里出现在杨子藏身边，紧张的看著他，以及这片区域。
Morris appeared beside Yang Zicang, watching him and the surrounding area with palpable tension.
突然他的眼眸壹震。远处公共铁椅子上有道银白制服身影。
Suddenly, his eyes quivered. On a public iron bench in the distance sat a figure draped in a silver-white uniform.
[我，我还好…]
[I, I’m fine…]
杨子藏混乱的意志开始稍微恢复了点。
Yang Zicang’s chaotic will began to recover slightly.
｛吓死我了，刚刚我看到妳脑袋都变淡了许多，这怪物…｝
{You scared me to death. Just now, I saw your head fade a lot. This monster…}
蜈蚣没有再次攻击，而是壹口壹个缺，就像牛啃树叶般嚼著这片巨大的念力地铁站台。
The centipede did not attack again. Instead, it nibbled gaps into this vast telekinetic subway platform, one bite at a time, like a cow chewing leaves.
[它不是想伤害我。]
[It’s not trying to hurt me.]
杨子藏左手捂头，伸出右手阻止了想要增幅时序的莫里。他吃力擡起头来。满地铁站自己的身影，这些都是关于过去自己的记忆。
Holding his head with his left hand, Yang Zicang raised his right to stop Morris, who was about to amplify Chronos. He lifted his head with great effort. The station was flooded with versions of himself—these were all fragments of his past memories.
随后，他的目光落在远处的那道银色制服男人身影上。
Then, his gaze settled on the figure in silver uniform lurking in the distance.
那人似乎不具备生命特征，只是壹道幻影。
That man didn’t seem to possess any life energy; he was merely a phantom.
｛是那个人！妳什么时候惹上那个开地铁的家伙的，妳跟他是壹个城的人？｝
{That guy! When did you get involved with the subway-riding wanderer? Are you from the same city as him?}
[我没见过此人。怎么，妳认识他？]
[I’ve never seen this person. What, you know him?]
｛呵呵，子藏先生。妳们那座城市能进入枢纽镇的人很少，那个人就是能进来的其中之壹。但他不是通过正常渠道。｝
{Heh, Mr. ZiCang. Very few people from your city can enter Hubville, and that man is one of them. But he didn’t come through the proper channels.}
莫里小心翼翼往哪地方走了几步，用壹块海藻丢过去，海藻打在那人身上，差点直接嵌在上面。
Morris cautiously took a few steps toward that spot, then tossed a piece of seaweed at him. It struck the man and nearly embedded itself in his form.
[不是正常渠道，那是什么？]
[If not through proper channels, then how?]
｛偷渡！他靠他的恶魇能力。这个人的能力可以穿越梦境，真实降临。｝
{Illegal means! He relies on his nightmare ability. This man can traverse dreams and manifest in reality.}
杨子藏的瞳孔猛然壹缩。
Yang Zicang’s pupils suddenly constricted.
是马超！他也是在地铁站获得的…不对，是他的伴生魔，是在地铁站诞生的。
It’s Matt Chao! He also acquired his power at the subway station… No, his Banshee Demon was born there.