Ground Stars / 地上星 · Ch.156 第156章 昼与夜的碰撞
第156章 昼与夜的碰撞
Chapter 156: Clash of Day and Night
大地轰鸣，如雷霆走穴，山峦塌陷，万棚卷起赤烟。
The earth roared like thunder traversing hidden veins, mountains crumbled, and scarlet smoke rose from a thousand pits.
时间的指标仿佛已跳到末日。
The hands of time seemed to have jumped straight to the apocalypse.
惊骇的人们紧张看向黑暗天际滑动的无数光之轨迹。
Terrified people strained their eyes toward the countless trails of light gliding across the dark horizon.
「谁是大明星？」
“Who’s the big star?”
「当然是名气最大的人！」
“Of course, whoever has the biggest name!”
「还能是谁，今晚闪耀整个失频之地的男人你说会是谁！ 那肯定就是…」
“Who else could it be? The one man lighting up all the Shibin Wastes tonight, you tell me who that is! It has to be…”
两座枢纽镇发出探照灯般的光圈射向天际。
Two Hubvilles shot searchlight-like beams into the sky.
快速跑动的列车感受到两道目光的注视。
A speeding train felt two gazes locked onto it.
[谁在瞪我。]
[Who the hell’s glaring at me.]
｛根据前三年的影响力评估，没有任何名气团队包装的你已被认证为闪耀两座枢纽镇的超级名人！｝
{Based on the impact assessment of the past three years, you, without any team packaging or fame, have been certified as a super celebrity shining across two Hubvilles!}
[什么？]
[What?]
极速跑动救人的列车有点蒙圈。
The speeding train, sprinting to save lives, was a bit stunned.
｛你是今晚最闪亮的存在。｝
{You are the brightest existence tonight.}
｛你已经被认证为大明星！｝
{You have been certified as a big star!}
｛你已获得上天的资格！｝
{You have qualified for transcendence!}
嗖嗖嗖，咻咻！
Swoosh, swoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
记者的记录册密密麻麻冲向幻影列车。
The reporter’s notebook, densely packed, surged toward the phantom train.
[我已被认证为大明星！]
[I have been certified as a big star!]
列车获得了无上荣誉。
The train attained supreme honor.
「呃？」
“Uh?”
杨子藏等人哑然地看向无数飞来的雪花般的小纸张。 与其说是纸，更像是小雪花，甚至是头皮屑。
Yang Zicang and the others stared dumbfounded at the countless snowflake-like slips of paper fluttering in. They seemed less like paper and more like tiny snowflakes—or even dandruff.
道道细窄的光芒射穿支离破碎的无夜投下灰白光柱，仿如白昼即将突破午夜的闸轮直接出现！
Narrow beams of light pierced through the shattered Eternal Night, casting gray-white columns of light, as if daylight itself was bursting through the midnight barrier, emerging directly!
｛我马超是大明星？｝
{I, Matt Chao, am a big superstar?}
「来不及了，快上吧！小马超！」
“No time left, hurry and get on, little Matt Chao!”
鬼影绰绰的列车带着光芒轨迹轰然撞向破碎般的光斑苍穹。
The train, filled with ghostly silhouettes, roared along its luminous trajectory, crashing towards a sky that seemed like a broken patchwork of light.
几节车厢内带着上千人，这辆地铁第一次盛满了满满当当的人类，也是第一次飞上了数千米的高空。
These cars held over a thousand people; for the first time, this subway was packed full of humanity, and for the first time, it soared tens of thousands of feet into the sky.
「飞，飞起来了。」
“We’re flying… we’re flying.”
列车上密密麻麻叠在一起的人伸着脑袋，看向幽影般的半透明车身外。支离破碎的大地到处都是暗红的创伤，一些地方甚至熔岩翻滚。
People packed densely atop one another inside the train craned their necks to look out through the ghostly, translucent car body. The shattered earth below was covered in dark red scars, with lava even churning in some places.
但下一秒，黄沙飞卷，残破的骷髅军团向着列车撕咬砍杀而来。
But in the next second, yellow sand swirled as a broken, skeletal army howled and charged towards the train, tearing and slashing.
列车内的小纸张们爆发出扩散的能量，开辟出一道曲折能量航线，它遍布倒扣的苍穹，就像弯弯扭扭的迷宫。
The small paper talismans inside the train erupted with energy, opening up a twisting energy course that spread across the inverted dome of the sky, like a labyrinth of crooked paths.
暗影列车如光一般穿梭在其中。
The shadow train wove through it at the speed of light.
天际，主编双目闪耀出绚烂光泽，似有无形刀剑在空中挥砍那道不断左右腾挪的骸骨身影。她转头看向远处，一道幻影列车正在高速靠近。
In the sky, the Editor-in-Chief’s eyes blazed with a magnificent sheen. It seemed as if invisible blades were constantly hacking through the air, myriads of times, at a figure of bones that continuously dodged and shifted. She turned her head to look in the distance, where a phantom train was closing in at high speed.
｛来送死吗！｝
{Have you come to die!}
她高声喝到。
She shouted loudly.
更多骷髅军队出现，劈砍天际迷宫通道。
More skeletal armies emerged, slashing at the celestial labyrinth passages.
但这通道虽数次摇摇欲坠，最终却坚挺了下来。
Though the passage wavered several times on the brink of collapse, it ultimately held firm.
嘘呜~！
Whoosh!
列车唰地靠近，列车车窗内众人表情震撼，仿佛近距离看到神战的观光团。
The train screeched to a halt, and inside the train windows, the people’s expressions were filled with shock, as if they were a tour group witnessing a battle of the gods up close.
嗖！无数星光点点穿过车厢出现在主编身旁，是那些小纸张。
Whoosh! Countless specks of starlight streaked through the carriage and gathered beside the editor-in-chief—it was those little papers.
它们携带了大量未知能量涌现聚集。
They surged and converged, carrying vast amounts of unknown energy.
在主编看到它们的一愣神之际，突然她背后出现另一个星渺的身影。
Just as the editor-in-chief was momentarily stunned at the sight of them, suddenly her other self appeared behind her.
「我叫七月.星渺，你叫梦蕊.浩沙。」
“I am July. Sparkle Depths, and you are Dream-Mist. Coral Sands.”
星渺在她耳边道。
Sparkle Depths whispered in her ear.
「小蕊蕊，作为一缕残魂，你已经做得很好了。」
“Dear Dream Bubble, for a lingering remnant of a soul, you’ve done well.”
女人的身体拉动出残影，后背直接变成身前正对向这具复制体。
The woman’s form dragged phantom afterimages, her back twisting directly to face this duplicate body.
她胸前五角星的Moexl闪耀，一掌挥出，带起撕裂一切的气息。
The five-pointed star Moxel on her chest blazed brilliantly; she thrust a palm forward, unleashing an aura that tore everything apart.
星渺轻轻叹息了声。
Sparkle Depths let out a soft sigh.
在这道残破身影被她击碎前，星渺一掌将她身躯刺穿，但自己也瞬间被摧毁。
Just before this tattered figure was shattered by her, Sparkle Depths pierced the duplicate body through with a palm blow, but she too was instantly destroyed.
下一霎那，飞出的主编身后又出现了复制体的残破骸骨身躯。
In the next instant, behind the flying editor-in-chief, a fragmented skeleton duplicate body reappeared.
｛不断分身，这就是我曾经的璨镜血脉？｝
“Nonstop clones, this was once my bloodline of Shattering Reflections?”
星渺未曾回复她，而是温柔道：
Xingmiao did not reply to her, but spoke gently:
「这些年重新作为孤独的孩子长大，一路走来很累吧。没关系，接下来你可以安心离去了。」
“Growing up all over again as a solitary child all these years must have been exhausting. It’s alright—you can now leave in peace.”
幻影列车一闪即逝，它半毫秒都不敢停留，在那些小纸张出去的刹那它已经直接潜入念力状态，向着「波波利站」极速飞驰而去。
The phantom train vanished in a flash, not daring to linger even half a millisecond. The moment those small papers flew out, it had already plunged into a psychic state, racing at breakneck speed toward “Popoli Station.”
星渺的头颅旁，纷繁的模糊幻像出现，全是梦幻泡影般的异世景象。
Around Xingmiao’s head, a tumult of blurry apparitions appeared— all illusory visions of otherworldly realms, like fleeting dreams and dissolving bubbles.
同时，雪花般的纸张交织成一道银白色光圈漂浮在女人的头顶。
At the same time, snowflake-like papers wove into a silver-white halo floating above the woman’s head.
光环，荡出浩瀚威势。
The halo emanated a vast and majestic might.
｛这是什么！｝
{What is this!}
斑驳流云下，女人略带惊恐的看着头顶道。
Beneath the mottled drifting clouds, the woman looked up at the halo with a hint of fear.
无数低声呓语与画面开始出现在主编的脑海。
Countless murmurs and visions began to surface in the chief editor’s mind.
「这是我们曾经的回忆。」
“These are the memories we once shared.”
她的记忆与思绪都出现混乱，就像突然觉醒了无数年的，毫不知情的记忆，给身心带来巨大冲击。
Her mind and thoughts fell into disarray, as if awakening countless years of subconscious memories, bringing a tremendous shock to her body and soul.
残破骷髅轻搂住受伤的女人。
A withered skeleton gently embraced the injured woman.
「没关系，你只是忘了。忘了化身大地是你自己的抉择！现在，全部都想起来吧！」
“It’s okay—you merely forgot. Forgot that incarnating into the earth was your own choice! Now, recall it all!
｛不，这不是。｝
{No, that’s not true.}
旁边的空气突然轰地沉响。
The air beside him suddenly rumbled with a heavy roar.
山岳般的身躯冲来，他屁股下是辆压得快看不见的黑色轿车，它突破以太空间出现在了高空，划着弧线冲来。
A mountain-like figure charged forth—beneath his seat was a black sedan, nearly invisible from being crushed, which broke through the etheric space and appeared at high altitude, arcing downward in an assault.
「主编大人！快上车！」
“Chief Editor! Get in the car!”
女人迷乱的眼神突地清晰，她猛甩头颅双目发出恐怖波动轰击向身侧之人。
The woman’s confused gaze suddenly sharpened; she violently whipped her head around, unleashing terrifying shockwaves from her eyes to bombard the person beside her.
｛没错，我早已不是她！所以这些记忆不是我的，滚！｝
{Yes, I am no longer her! So these memories are not mine. Get out!}
说出这句话的瞬间，天使光环般的光圈无声破碎。
The instant those words were uttered, the halo-like circle of angelic light shattered silently.
纸张们瞬间聚拢成一道如同头盔般的白色帽子将女人头颅笼罩。
The pieces of paper instantly coalesced into a white helmet-like hood, enveloping the woman’s head.
它上面沟壑纵横，下方大地上，成千上万的暗沉忘川溪与天际的纹路通道遥相呼应，齐齐转变为白色，射出链接天地的光芒！
Its surface was crisscrossed with ravines while, on the land below, tens of thousands of murky Lethean streams resonated with the sky’s patterned channels, all turning white and emitting beams of light that linked heaven and earth!
天地似在悲恫。
Heaven and earth seemed to mourn.
朦胧历史幻影映彻天空，展现的全是她的过去。
Misty historical phantoms lit up the sky, unfolding nothing but her past.
｛啊！｝
{Ah!}
倒射苍穹的光芒犹如交错的锁链，将完全转化为念力形态的女人给困住。
The beams shooting back into the firmament, like interlaced chains, trapped the woman who had fully transformed into a psychic form.
她快速挣扎，发动念力幻影攻击光芒。
She struggled fiercely, summoning psychic phantoms to attack the light.
星渺徒然出现于撞过来的山力士背后，它的头轻轻一点，山力士的魁梧身躯与其屁股下的轿车就瞬间爆炸。
Xingmiao appeared abruptly behind the charging Mansley. Its head gave a slight nod, and instantly, Mansley’s massive figure, along with the sedan beneath his seat, detonated into nothingness.
「身躯化为新世界的一片大地，是她做出的抉择。我只是在执行她的命令。而最后的命令，是消灭她对过去的执念所生的残魂之躯。」
“Turning her body into the great expanse of the new world was her own choice. I am merely executing her orders. And the final order was to eliminate the remnant soul born from her attachment to the past.”
｛不！星渺，你真不顾旧情了吗！｝
{No! Xingmiao, can you really disregard our past bonds so heartlessly?}
「很遗憾，你不是她，天真的蕊蕊相信世界有会美好的未来，我就是她留下的那把斩断过去的剑刃。」
“Unfortunately, you are not her. Naïve Ruirui believed that the world could have a beautiful future, but I am the blade she left behind to sever the past.”
残破骷髅携带毁天灭地般的能量撞向那道被过去记忆光束所束缚的雪白身躯。
The shattered skeleton, carrying world-shattering energy, charged toward the snow-white form bound by beams made of past memories.
高速移动中，又有数块骨骸瞬移般划破遥远距离飞来，紧紧跟在它身躯之后，带起星光点点的残影。
In the midst of high-speed movement, several more bones appeared as if teleporting across vast distances, trailing close behind its body, leaving behind starlit after-images.
轰隆！
Boom!
数量庞大的念力幻影砍击光束，终于将之击破。
The massive swarm of psychic phantoms struck the light beams, finally shattering them.
极速后退的女人冷漠双目中，星光波纹高速闪动射去。
In the detached, icy eyes of the rapidly retreating woman, ripples of starlight pulsed and shot forward at high speed.
｛我是所有记者的主编，我是这片大地真正的主人！我要绘制新的传奇！｝
{I am the chief of all journalists, the true master of this land! I shall forge a new legend!}
「所有新世界的人，都是他们的主编，唯独不是你我。」
“All people of the new world are their own chiefs—all except you and me.”
两人一前一后快速在空中移动，如同两道彗焰。
The two moved swiftly through the sky, one after the other, like twin comets blazing with fire.
啪啪！星渺的身躯开始燃烧，冒出飘渺的虚焰。
Snap! Xingmiao’s body began to burn, emitting ethereal, phantom-like flames.
｛你要做什么！｝
{What are you doing!}
「新未来不需要我们，这份执念该消退了。」
“The new future has no need for us—this obsession should fade away.”
星渺的速度徒然暴涨，黑白的两道身影聚拢在了一起。
Xingmiao’s speed surged violently, the black-and-white figures converging together.
天上爆发炙白耀眼的光芒。
The sky exploded with a piercing, blazing white light.
飓风般的风暴自那里爆发，席卷整片失频之地，被掀翻的众人趴在地上吃力抬头上望。
A hurricane-like storm erupted from there, sweeping across the entire Shibin Wastes. Those thrown to the ground struggled to raise their heads and look upward.
高空，无数碎片如流星般炸向大地各处。
High in the sky, countless fragments rained down like meteors, crashing far and wide across the earth.
一块破布在风中极速旋转着被风卷向远方。
A tattered cloth spun rapidly in the wind, carried away into the distance.
小光团内的精灵们慌乱地看着这一切。
The spirits within the small luminous ball watched all of this in panic.
它们突然感觉很悲伤，说不清楚到底是怎么回事，像是失去了很亲的亲人一样。
They were suddenly hit by a profound sadness, unable to explain what was happening—it felt as though they had lost a beloved family member.
它们明明不认识那个怪家伙。
And yet, they didn’t even know that odd figure.
一块块铁石般的暗沉碎骨携带白色优美纹路，陨石般坠落向大地各处。
Scattered fragments of dark, iron-like bones, adorned with delicate white patterns, plummeted to all corners of the earth like falling stars in a meteor shower.
随著它们的坠地，忘川溪开始重新转为黑色。 与之相连的枢纽镇能量脉络也开始收回，各处的骇人裂缝快速愈合。
As they struck the ground, the Forgotten Creek began to shift back to black. The energy veins of Hubville that connected to it also started retracting, the terrifying fissures across the land healing at an alarming rate.
天上所有的身影都消失了，天际炸开的流云上方，落下丝丝缕缕的阳光又迅速被厚云覆盖。
All the figures vanished from the sky. Above the shattered clouds in the horizon, shreds of sunlight began to seep downward but were quickly swallowed again by thick clouds.
天亮了。
Dawn had broken.
呼呼~~
Whoosh~~
呼~
Hoo~
逐渐平息的风刮过荒芜起伏的地面。
The wind gradually subsided, sweeping across the barren, undulating ground.
望著天际的双马尾少女失去力气，咚地跪在地上。 许久后。 少女拿袖子擦了擦泪痕，捡起身旁的魔方，顺著车辙，孤独地一步步走向远方地平线的尽头。
The twin-tailed girl, gazing at the sky, lost her strength and thudded to her knees on the ground. After a long while, the girl wiped away her tear stains with her sleeve, picked up the Rubik’s Cube lying beside her, and followed the wagon ruts, walking alone step by step toward the far end of the horizon.
《魂孪英旅 上部 地上星》完
End of “Soulbound English Journey, Part One: Earthstar“