Ground Stars / 地上星 · Ch.56 第56章 完结的契约与实验 -2
第56章 完结的契约与实验 –2
Chapter 56: The Completed Contract and Experiment – 2
这个年轻人的身影，就是马超吗？
Is that young man Matt Chao’s silhouette?
幽暗海底，借著熔浆光芒变幻的它，在晃动的水中也维持著宛若真实的人类青年形象。
In the dim seabed, its form changed with the glow of molten lava, maintaining an almost humanlike youthful image even in the shifting water.
自己锻炼了这么久才稳定了身形…不愧是先来很久的人物，杨子藏心中暗道，不晓得会不会有什么危险。
*It took me so long to stabilize my own form… No wonder he’s been here much longer*, Yang Zicang thought to himself, uncertain of what dangers might lie ahead.
还好孕育出了白影念龙！
Fortunately, the Paleshade Wyrm was born!
两人走到这虚影身边。马超的身影如同蜡像壹动不动，杨子藏用手触摸，手掌像是深入浓烈的能量体内似的，可以在他体内搅动，却阻力很大，且什么也抓不到。
The two approached the phantom. Matt Chao’s figure stood motionless like a wax statue. Yang Zicang reached out a hand and touched it; his palm sank into what felt like a dense mass of energy, able to stir within its core, yet the resistance was immense and he grasped nothing.
｛我们的枢纽镇有很多人谈论过他。没想到是跟妳同城的人，而且还被他标记了。子藏先生，庆幸啊，不然妳可能什么时候就在睡梦中被人给干掉了。｝
{In our Hubville, many people have talked about him. I never expected him to be from the same city as you, and that he even left his mark on you, Mr. ZiCang. Consider yourself lucky—otherwise, you might have been killed in your sleep without a clue.}
这个人果然是个高手，因为他的对手就非常厉害。莫里想到，他神色复杂地看著身旁死而复生的恶魇。
This man was undoubtedly a master, for the same reason—*his opponent was incredibly formidable*. Morris thought, a complicated expression flickering across his face as he looked at the nightmare resurrected from death beside him.
｛另外，我得恭喜妳，竟然获得了念力型恶魇，希望妳能想办法将它带入现实。｝
{Also, I must congratulate you on acquiring the psychic-type nightmare. I hope you find a way to bring it into the real world.}
确实，这值得恭喜，但杨子藏心中只是开心了壹下，就转而凝重的道：
Indeed, that is worth celebrating, but Yang Zicang only felt a moment of joy before turning solemnly and saying:
[恶魇的事先暂停。莫里，妳还知道马超的什么信息吗？还有‘真实降临‘是什么意思，在睡著的时候出现在那些人身边？]
[Put the matter of Nightmares aside for now. Morris, do you know anything else about Matt Chao? And what does ‘Real Arrival’ mean, appearing beside those people while they sleep?]
｛啊。原来他叫马超，｝身旁这个男人有点恍然，｛嗯，据说被这位红Moexl的先生标记过的人，在午夜睡著的时候，可以通过梦境站台让他的念力列车靠站，真正的出现在目标身边。｝
{Ah, so his name is Matt Chao,} the man beside him said, somewhat enlightened, {Well, it is said that those marked by this gentleman Red Moxel can, at midnight while asleep, have his willpower train stop at their dream station and genuinely appear beside their target.}
莫里很是羡慕的继续心念声道：
Morris continued, with great envy, in his mind-voice:
｛他是珍贵的念能力拥有者。当然，现在妳也是了。｝
{He is a precious willpower-ability bearer. Of course, now you are one too.}
杨子藏肃然。
Yang Zicang stiffened with stern gravity.
只要触碰气息，或者种下念力站台…等别人睡著就可以出现在熟睡之人身边的能力…
Simply touch their aura, or plant a willpower station… then wait for them to fall asleep, and you can appear beside the sleeping person as an ability…
为什么自己会中招？
Why had he himself fallen into the trap?
光听名字就晓得自己跟他的梁子结在哪里。（马超，跟张飞壹样是《三国演义》里著名的英雄人物。）
Just from hearing the name, he knew where his feud lay with him. (Matt Chao, just like Zhang Fei, is a famous heroic figure from *Romance of the Three Kingdoms*.)
杨子藏估摸著自己还没有被攻击的原因。或许是现实中的两天睡觉，都进入了邮徽世界，否则可能马超可能已经出现在了身边做掉了自己。
Yang Zicang speculated on why he hadn’t been attacked yet. Perhaps because, during his two days of sleep in reality, he had both times entered the Yore-Realm; otherwise, Matt Chao might have already appeared by his side and finished him off.
真是惊险！
What a close call!
他看了眼旁边的念力怪物，这家伙肚子像是个无底洞，在这虚幻的站台影像边，它顺著边儿壹口口吞了过来。嘴巴旁几粒小乳牙中，已经茁壮的两根弯曲钳牙不断将撕下的念力体塞入如狮子又似虎狼般的巨大念能头颅嘴里，吃得起劲无比。
He glanced at the psychic monster beside him. The creature’s stomach was like a bottomless pit; along the edge of this illusory platform projection, it devoured everything bite by bite. Amid the few small baby teeth around its mouth, two already robust, curved fangs relentlessly stuffed the torn pieces of psychic energy into its massive wolf-like—or tiger-like—head, which housed a peerlessly vast psychic force, chewing with voracious delight.
直到它来到凳子上的马超身边。
Until it reached Matt Chao, who was sitting on the stool.
狼头状的念龙看了自己壹眼，像是在询问还要不要比划，不然就要开吃了。
The wolf-headed psychic dragon glanced at him, as if asking whether they still wanted to spar, or else it would start feasting.
杨子藏后退了两步让开路。
Yang Zicang took two steps back to clear the way.
念龙硕大的头颅壹口将马超的幻影吞入，忽地它顿住在原地。
The psychic dragon’s enormous head swallowed Matt Chao’s phantom in one gulp, then suddenly froze in place.
嘭！
Boom!
怪物头颅炸开。
The monster’s head exploded.
海水晃动了下，两人愣愣地看著身前强横无比、可以在这个世界如无人之境厮杀的助力悍然化为了散开的能量消失。
The seawater rippled for a moment, and the two stood frozen, staring in shock as their formidable ally—an unmatched force capable of slaughtering without restraint in this very world—violently dissipated into dispersing energy and vanished.
[该死的！]
[Damn it!]
杨子藏尖叫到。
Yang Zicang screamed.
｛啊，等等，这是怎么回事。它，它还好吗？｝
{Ah, wait, what just happened? Is it… is it okay?}
有点受到刺激的杨子藏游动了下，但随后就感觉到壹些微弱的波动在汇聚，啊，杨子藏松了口气。还好，念龙状的火焰恶魇，并没有完全消散，它的气息只是散开在了这片岩浆海底。
Yang Zicang, slightly startled, swam a bit, but then felt some faint fluctuations gathering. Ah, Yang Zicang breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, the flame nightmare in the form of Thought Dragon hadn’t completely dissipated; its aura had merely scattered across this lava seabed.
细细感受了会儿，它重新出现了丝波动。
After sensing carefully for a while, a slight ripple of its presence reappeared.
培养了好久的火念龙壹诞生新灵智就遭受重创，千年养得心性恬淡的杨子藏，久违感受到愤怒。因为这是来自于现实的真实存在的攻击，跟这些假冒的原始人可不壹样。
The Thought Dragon, nurtured for so long, had only just birthed a new spiritual intelligence before suffering a heavy blow. Yang Zicang, whose heart had grown placid over a millennium, felt a long-lost surge of anger. Because this was a real attack from reality, unlike those fake primitive men.
忽然周围的念力站台开始崩溃。
Suddenly, the surrounding psychic platforms began to collapse.
这瞬间转头看去的杨子藏，像是听到了虚无缥缈的地铁嘶鸣之音在暗淡消泯。
In that instant, Yang Zicang turned his head, as if hearing the ethereal hiss of a subway train fading into nothingness.
他手上壹动，壹片附带时序的金辉冲去。却无法真正攻击到这些残破的马超念力身躯。
With a flick of his hand, he released a burst of golden radiance imbued with Chronos. Yet it couldn’t truly strike at those shattered psychic forms belonging to Matt Chao.
｛妳的念力宝贝没事吧？｝
“Is your psychic treasure alright?”
莫里游动了过来。
Morris swam over.
[不用担心，它只是能量有点消耗，会恢复的。]
“No need to worry. It’s just a bit of energy depletion; it will recover.”
说罢，在莫里探究的眼神中，杨子藏手壹招，周围已经恢复牵动的能量真的很是笨拙地开始轻微搅动。毕竟是吃下了自己脑袋里的念力站台，杨子藏心中略喜的想到。
As he spoke, under Morris’s probing gaze, Yang Zicang waved his hand, and the surrounding energy, which had barely begun to stir again, really moved awkwardly. After all, having consumed the psychic platform from his own mind, Yang Zicang thought with a hint of delight.
他又再次专注地尝试控制，长著虎狼般头颅的念龙恶魇终于重新具现出淡薄的头颅，只是还很破碎。
He focused again, attempting control, and the nightmare spirit dragon with a wolf-and-tiger-like head finally re-materialized into a faint form, though still quite fragmented.
真没有直接死掉，这稍微让莫里也松了口气。
It hadn’t directly perished after all, which slightly relieved Morris as well.
｛还好没炸掉。｝他说到。
{Glad it didn’t explode.} he said.
地铁站附近，无数个残缺的杨子藏淡薄幻影在这片海水各处闪烁越聚越近。
Near the subway station, countless fragmented, faint phantoms of Yang Zicang flickered across the seawater, gradually converging closer.
这些身影是自己的精神体被撕碎后的产物，它们也在如白影念龙般，本能地聚拢，想要融合。
These figures were the remnants of his shattered spirit, instinctively gathering like a Paleshade Wyrm, yearning to merge.
但就在这么壹瞬间，杨子藏忽地像是福至心灵般想到了什么。
But in that fleeting instant, Yang Zicang suddenly had a striking epiphany.
不，不能融合！
No, they must not merge!
杨子藏瞬间做了个决定，擡手指著前方自己的残影张开嘴，振奋到用力鼓动喉咙发出呜咽的声音。
In an instant, he made a decision, raised his hand to point at the phantoms of himself ahead, opened his mouth, and with a surge of determination, forced his throat to produce a guttural sound.
「快，吃掉它们！」
“Quick, devour them!”
已经快要再次死去的恶魇怪物扭曲著炸开大半的晃动头颅游动起来。
The nightmare monster, on the verge of dying again, writhed as its mostly blasted-apart, trembling head swam through the water.
杨子藏脚下壹瞪，双拳用力卷起海水，让其中两个自己的残缺精神体荡起。
Yang Zicang kicked off with one foot, his fists churning the seawater violently, stirring up two of his own fragmented psychic bodies.
[调度，轨迹变化！]
[Deploy, Trajectory Alteration!]
两个自己的虚影冲入念龙的口中，化为精神能量进入白影念龙身躯。
The two phantoms of himself shot into the Beast of Mind-Birth’s mouth, transforming into mental energy as they entered the Paleshade Wyrm’s body.
这壹冒险的尝试后，本就因念力站台的拔出而有些虚弱的杨子藏，感觉自己对念龙怪物的联系加深了！
After this daring attempt, Yang Zicang, already somewhat weakened by the extraction of his mental focus pillar, felt his connection with the mental dragon-monster deepen!
有效！
It’s effective!
随后，海底的莫里看到，漂浮的这个四边形拥有者，在海底快速地带著那条笨拙的残破东西游动起来。
Then, Morris, at the bottom of the sea, saw the floating Quad owner swiftly dragging that clumsy, mutilated thing through the seabed.
越来越多他自己的精神身影，被杨子藏送入其复活的念力怪兽嘴中。
More and more of his own phantom manifestations were being fed into the resurrected mind-monster’s maw by Yang Zicang.
｛老莫…｝
{Old Mo…}
莫里腿壹蹬浮了过去。
Morris kicked his legs and floated over.
｛妳在干嘛。｝
{What are you doing?}
杨子藏丢给他两块变形的金币。
Yang Zicang tossed him two deformed gold coins.
｛快帮我聚集时序进行喂养。｝
{Quick, help me gather Chronos to feed it.}
想到那听话知了的莫里，感叹了下注入些微时序后，将金币丢给了杨子藏。他壹口气往里面注入了壹千年的时序，随后将金币送进开始再次努力具现出头颅的怪物。
Thinking of the obedient and sensible Morris, he sighed slightly while infusing some Chronos, then tossed the coin under Yang Zicang’s thousand-ear dominance. He abruptly poured a thousand years’ worth of Chronos into it, after which he sent the coin into the monster that was beginning to re-materialize its head with renewed effort.
咔咔！
Crick-crack!
恶魇重新长出的弯曲牙齿将金币刺穿，金辉快速融入这淡淡的白色精神体念龙怪物。
The freshly regrown crooked teeth of the nightmare demon pierced through the coin, the golden radiance swiftly merging into the faint white mental spirit dragon-like monster.
杨子藏感觉越来越与之心意相通。
Yang Zicang felt an increasingly intimate connection of minds with it.
｛太好了，它活下来了。它叫什么？｝
{Great, it survived. What is its name?}
莫里都为杨子藏感到高兴。
Even Morris rejoiced in Yang Zicang’s success.
咔擦咔嚓！
Crick-crack-crunch!
听话的恶魇怪物撕咬著周围的站台能量，包括马超念力体崩坏后的幻影雾气。
The obedient nightmare beast tore at the energy of the surrounding platforms, including the phantom mist left behind after Matt Chao’s psychic construct collapsed.
这怪物能发现并吃掉精神层面上的念力物，哪怕它无法带出这个世界，光是吞掉了埋入杨子藏精神之海的念力站台就非常值得了。
This creature could detect and devour psychic objects on the spiritual level. Even if it couldn’t bring them out of this world, merely consuming the psychic platforms buried deep in Yang Zicang’s sea of consciousness was more than worth it.
[我想叫它「白影念龙」。]
[I want to call it “Paleshade Wyrm.”]
｛不错的名字，上帝啊，我好想也要壹个。｝
{Great name. God, I wish I had one too.}
莫里羡慕之情溢于言表。
Morris’s envy was written all over his face.
白影念龙在海底旋转追击著剩余的微弱能量。当它吞进最后壹块站台后，杨子藏感觉自己心中多出了若有若无的东西。
The Paleshade Wyrm spiraled through the seabed, chasing the remaining faint energy. As it swallowed the last piece of the platform, Yang Zicang felt a subtle, almost intangible presence take root in his heart.
[白影念龙吞噬了超越界限的同类念体。]
[The Paleshade Wyrm devoured the psionic body of its kin, transcending boundaries.]
[我知道白影念龙将开始吸纳同类能力，它即将陷入沈睡。]
[I know it will begin to absorb the abilities of its kind. Soon, it will fall into slumber.]
不愧是初代大巫所燃起来的火种。杨子藏有点想念几千年前自己那位「小武」了。
As expected of the torch ignited by the First Generation Great Shaman. Yang Zicang briefly reminisced about his “Xiao Wu” from thousands of years ago.
他给自己的礼物如同深藏的宝藏，在数千年后也还在开启。
The gift he had given that child was like a hidden treasure, still unfolding even millennia later.
随著杨子藏的心念壹动，白影念龙回到前方岩浆内。
With a single thought from Yang Zicang, the Paleshade Wyrm returned to the lava ahead.
[睡吧，好孩子。]
[Sleep, good child.]
海底熔岩处，涌起虚无的淡淡红色光芒，就像高温的气流所组成。
Amid the seabed’s molten rock, a faint red aura of nothingness surged, as if woven from scorching currents of air.
长著像是虎狼头颅的恶魇怪物将自己如龙蛇般卷成圈，将头埋入最中心，趴在岩浆上。
The nightmare beast, bearing a head like that of a tiger or wolf, coiled its dragon-like serpentine body into rings, buried its head at the cenmter, and lay on the lava.
这壹睡又不知要多少年。
This slumber would stretch on for who knows how many more years.
但自己等得起。
Yet it could afford to wait.
｛这就是妳那该死的实验，啊，子藏先生，妳什么时候才来枢纽镇啊！｝
{This is your damned experiment, huh, Mr. ZiCang? When in the world are you coming to Hubville!}
莫里怅然地道。
Morris said with a helpless sigh.
[怎么？妳想邀请我去做客吗。]
[Oh? Are you inviting me to visit?]
｛子藏先生，成为我的队友吧。我，还有波波利，再加上妳这样厉害的人物，我们的能力可以最完美的配合，发挥出巨大的作用。｝
{Mr. ZiCang, become my teammate. Me, Boboli, and a capable man like you—our abilities could synergize perfectly and deliver immense results.}
根本没「能发挥巨大作用」这回事。
There was never any truth to “delivering immense results.”
杨子藏露出笑容，他正想说什么，胸前Moexl闪动了下光线。
Yang Zicang broke into a smile. Just as he was about to speak, the Moxel on his chest flickered with light.
[我收获了壹份完结状态的代练契约书。]
[I’ve received a finished proxy training contract.]
是有人去世了吗。
So someone has passed away.
杨子藏擡头望向陆地的方向，内心说不出到底是高兴还是难过。
Yang Zicang looked up in the direction of the land, his heart torn between joy and sorrow, unable to tell which stirred it more.