Ground Stars / 地上星 · Ch.02 第2章 光环Moexl·四边形 -1
第2章 光环Moexl·四边形 –1
Chapter 2: Aura Moxel·Quadrangle –1
巴士内四处出现怪异的金属扭曲声，这辆车像是在蠕动。
Strange metallic screeches echoed throughout the bus, as if the vehicle itself were writhing.
人群中两道惨烈尖叫响起，黑烟自两人脚底灌入，顺著血管与神经迅速布满了他们的身躯。
Two piercing screams erupted from the crowd as black smoke poured into their feet through the ground, spreading rapidly along their blood vessels and nerves, engulfing their entire bodies.
这两人身高疯涨，快速变形，犹如长高的人形雕塑顶到了车顶，同时继续裂开向四面八方延伸。
The pair grew frantically, their height shooting up as they contorted, resembling human-shaped sculptures that pushed against the roof while continuing to crack and extend in all directions.
两张脸痛苦的撕扯拉开，如藤蔓般蔓延自车顶各处，他们的眼珠分布在车顶四方，随后，四只眼珠齐齐望向杨子藏的方向。
Their faces were torn apart in agony, spreading like vines across every part of the ceiling; their eyeballs distributed themselves to the four corners of the roof, before all four eyes stared simultaneously in the direction of Yang Zicang.
一个嘴巴用扭曲的声调道：「打… 坏蛋。」
A mouth spoke in a twisted tone: “Beat… the bad guy.”
杨子藏看得双目滴血，这真是比噩梦还要可怕的怪物啊！
Yang Zicang’s eyes were bleeding from the horror—this was a monster far more terrifying than a nightmare!
「你先出去。」 杨子藏抱起少女柔嫩的腰肢，将她从车窗上丢下，自己也立即蹬上座椅往外跳去。
“Get out first.” Yang Zicang wrapped his arms around the girl’s tender waist, throwing her out through the window before immediately springing off the seat and jumping out himself.
车窗旁的安全带如蛇般扭曲而起，冲向外面。
The seatbelt by the window twisted like a snake and lashed outwards.
啪！ 杨子藏的脚被安全带缠住，往上拖动，要将他重新拉回车里。
Snap! Yang Zicang’s foot was caught in the belt, yanked upward as it dragged him back into the vehicle.
还摔在地上的少女慌忙转头伸手拉住杨子藏倒垂的手臂：「哥哥，快出来！」
The girl, still sprawled on the ground, quickly turned and grabbed Yang Zicang’s dangling arm: “Brother, get out quickly!”
「出去，小子！」
“Get out, kid!”
车里两人拽住挣扎的安全带，刚想一起花费寿命用力将它扯断，车厢底部又是两道鼓起的黑色包块冲来，在两人脚下爆发，黑气灌入他们的身体。
Inside the car, the two struggled against their stubborn seat belts, just about to expend their lifespan to snap them apart, when two bulging black lumps surged from the floor at their feet, erupted, and black mist poured into their bodies.
「啊！」
“Ah!”
惨叫声后，这两人疯涨起来，身上出现往四周扩散的血肉滕蔓。
Amid the screams, the two began to swell frantically, with writhing vines of flesh spreading outward across their bodies.
这些藤蔓扩散向四面八方，在车内交织，一些人被它们困住，眼看已经无法动弹。
These vines expanded in all directions, weaving through the carriage. Some were trapped by them, now powerless to move.
嗵！ 一个灭火器砸了过来，将安全带砸断，但丢出这灭火器的大汉双目迅速失神，他吃力地看了眼手上快速皱褶的皮肤。
Thud! A fire extinguisher slammed over, breaking the belt. But the burly man who threw it had a gaze swiftly growing vacant; he looked painfully at his rapidly wrinkling skin.
「原来… 我还能活三十二年…」
“So… I still had thirty-two years to live…”
他身体踉跄了步，倒在地上。
He staggered a step and collapsed onto the ground.
这一击，大汉用掉了他的所有剩余寿命。
With this blow, the big man had drained all his remaining lifespan.
又有两面还未被血肉覆盖的玻璃窗被砸碎，六七个人挤在窗前，争先恐后地往外跳，但其中一半都被射来的安全带缠住。
Two more windows, still uncovered by flesh, were smashed. Six or seven people crowded at the opening, scrambling to jump out, but half were caught by flying belt restraints.
恐怖的气息猛然暴涨，车内出现暗红色的薄膜心脏，在几道「柱子」间如有呼吸般收缩、膨胀。
A terrifying presence suddenly surged. Inside the car, a dark-red, membrane-like heart appeared, contracting and expanding among several “pillars” as if breathing.
地面上，杨子藏爬行了两步，小腿处被缠绕的地方皮肤色泽深沉，与其它地方明显不一样。
On the ground, Yang Zicang crawled a few steps, where his calf was tangled, the skin there was a dark, deep color, clearly different from the rest of his body.
已经六七十岁模样的杨子藏爬起身来，看著车内的惨景，他目光中全是震惊与哀伤。
Yang Zicang, who appeared to be in his sixties or seventies, got to his feet and looked at the horrifying scene inside the vehicle, his eyes filled with disbelief and sorrow.
随即他从车下见到了对面那道穿著凉鞋，迈著弓字步的双腿。
Then, from under the car, he saw a pair of legs across from him, wearing sandals and braced in an archery stance.
「黄主任！」
“Director Huang!”
杨子藏怒吼，那家伙此刻还拉著门！
Yang Zicang roared, that bastard still had his hand pulling on the door!
「你快走。」 杨子藏让还半跪在地不知所措的少女快跑，自己则跟另一人往车对面跑去。
“Get out of here.” Yang Zicang told the girl, who was still half-kneeling on the ground in shock, to run, while he himself rushed towards the opposite side of the car with another person.
「啊哈哈，还有二十秒了，我知道，马上，马上孩子就诞生了！」
“Ah haha, only twenty seconds left, I know, soon, soon the child will be born!”
见到身旁冲来几个满脸愤怒的身影，黄旭状若疯癫地大喊大叫，砰的声，一个拳头砸在他脸上，随后又是一脚蹬来。
Seeing several figures rushing toward him with rage-filled faces, Huang Hsu screamed and laughed like a madman. With a *thud*, a fist smashed into his face, followed by a kick.
眼见时间已经差不多，黄旭边挨著揍边大笑著松手，杨子藏一瘸一拐地奔过来，用膝盖顶在他腹部，这同时挨几人打的老人嘴中一口血喷出。
Seeing that time was almost up, Huang Hsu, while taking the beating, laughed and let go of the door. Yang Zicang limped over and drove his knee into the old man’s abdomen, who spat blood as several people’s blows continued to rain down on him.
门哐当声被拉开。
The door banged open.
里面的两人看向车外，几个七老八十的人喘著粗气殴打著这地中海老头，眼看他出气多进气少。
The two inside looked out of the vehicle, as several elderly people, huffing and puffing, were beating up the Mediterranean-looking old man, who was taking in more harm than he could endure.
车内的人脚步虚软地迈步往外，被车内蛛网般的血肉所挡在门后的他们原本已经绝望，然而在最后关头门居然开了。
Those in the car stepped forward with weak, unsteady feet. Blocked inside by the web of flesh, they had already fallen into despair—but at the last moment, the door unexpectedly opened.
嘭！ 在后面的一道人影爆炸。
Bang! The figure behind exploded.
前方那人一步跨出的瞬间，地面忽然变得半透明，宛若暗沉的能量云层，透露出下方深邃的黑暗洞穴，它就像一个由巴士诞生的巨大倒悬空腔。
The instant the one ahead stepped out, the ground suddenly turned translucent, like a murky cloud of energy, revealing a deep, dark cavity beneath—an inverted hollow cavity that seemed born from the bus itself.
无法听清的呓语响起，莫大的恐怖感从车内蔓延，如同滑腻的触手自背后缠绕向自己。
Unintelligible whispers arose, and an immense sense of horror spread from within the vehicle, like a slimy tentacle coiled around from behind.
嗡地声沉响，旋风灌入车内，澎湃心跳声如锤鼓般自车内的晦色蛛网内响了起来。
With a deep boom, a whirlwind poured into the car, and the surging heartbeat, like thundering drums, resonated from the murky web of darkness inside.
「喝啊！」 黄旭心窝亮起红点，它绽放出几道猩红的曲折光线，仿佛三四个几何线条由小至大爆炸开来，将众人掀翻，他的皮肤快速恢复。
“Hah!” A red dot ignited at Huang Hsu’s chest, blooming into several twisted rays of crimson light, as if three or four geometric lines exploded from small to large, sending everyone tumbling and flipping aside. His skin rapidly healed.
「啊哈哈哈，我赌对了，我赌对了啊！」
“Hahaha, I guessed right, I guessed right!”
地面快速变得柔软起来。
The ground quickly turned soft beneath them.
众人大惊失色，四散逃开。
Startled, the crowd scattered and fled in all directions.
「快跑！」
“Run!”
这黄旭太过狠辣，此刻又拥有了怪异能力，恐怕他会成为一个魔头。
This Huang Hsu is truly ruthless, and now he possesses strange abilities—he might become a demon.
周围的路人们对这一切视若无睹。
The passersby around him show no reaction to any of this.
乃至一些车子撞向众人后却直接穿过，这些都是幻象！
Even some cars crash into the crowd only to pass straight through them—these are all illusions!
外貌迅速变成二十来岁的黄旭，贪婪地感受著身体内部涌现的力量感与精神气，这是其好多年都不曾有过的感觉了。
Huang Hsu, whose appearance has rapidly turned into that of a man in his twenties, greedily savors the surge of power and vitality within his body—a sensation he hasn’t felt in years.
「我黄旭居然也有今日。」 他转头看了眼旁边被散发著血红雾气覆盖的暗黑细鳞车身，满目迷醉。
“I, Huang Hsu, actually have a day like this.” He turns his head to glance at the dark, fine-scaled car body, shrouded in a radiating blood-red mist, his eyes full of intoxication.
车厢内的怪物阴影通过某种神秘连结，向黄旭传递著自己的情绪与欲望，那是对人类的渴求，对生物的渴求。
Through some mysterious connection, the shadowy monster inside the car conveys its emotions and desires to Huang Hsu—a craving for humans, a thirst for living beings.
黄旭表情阴森地瞟著大街两旁这些人，他能感觉得出这儿只是这些人的影子罢了，心中遗憾地道：可惜他们都无法被吞噬。
Huang Hsu glares darkly at the people lining the streets on both sides. he can sense that these are merely shadows of the real individuals, and laments inwardly: What a pity that none of them can be devoured.
此刻在他的认知中，人类已经自然而然成为了可以随便享用的食物。
In his perception now, humans have naturally become food he can consume at will.
黄旭的目光落在跑向远方的几人身上。
Huang Hsu’s gaze falls on the few figures running into the distance.
杨子藏和三人越过马路跑到左边的白色商业大楼下。
Yang Zicang and the other three cross the road and race toward the white commercial building on the left.
忽然，大楼内一道道白色的能量网从中出现，快速往大楼的内部聚拢而去，当它们脱离建筑的表面后，这栋大楼变得陈腐了起来。
Suddenly, strands of white energy web emerged from within the building, rapidly converging towards its interior. Once they detached from the building’s surface, the structure itself fell into decay.
有什么东西在那楼内复苏，几人感觉，这可能是自己经过的原因。
Something within the building was awakening; several of them sensed that it might be caused by their own passing.
人对那东西来说就是提前诞生的催化剂。
To that something, humans served as a catalyst for its premature birth.
「这东西也能诞生怪物吗？！」
“This thing can also give birth to monsters?!”
他们大惊失色，继续往前奔跑而去。
They were terrified, and continued to sprint forward in panic.
轰！
Boom!
身后几十米外，一道巨大长条形的金属枝节怪物快速冲撞向前方。
Just a few dozen meters behind them, a colossal, elongated metal-branched monster slammed forward rapidly.
巴士怪物撞向马路对面，一栋楼下的房屋墙壁被撞碎。
The bus monster smashed into the other side of the street, shattering a house wall beneath a building.
「啊啊啊！」
“Aaaah!”
对面那三人慌不择路地分开逃跑，其中一人直接被怪物如挡风玻璃般的巨嘴吞噬。
The three on the opposite side scattered in panic into different directions, and one was instantly devoured by the monster’s massive windshield-like maw.
几人拐进巷道内。
The few of them turned and dashed into an alley.
「巷道比较窄，希望… 能让那个怪物，放弃追我们。」
“The alley is narrower… hopefully, it will make that monster give up chasing us.”
这两人的肺都像是拉扯风箱般，发出「嗬、嗬」的声音。
The lungs of the two men heaved like bellows, gasping out ragged “hars, hars.”
刘明捂住胸口，撑著墙壁道：「不行了，我感觉要，死了。 我，我歇一会。」
Liu Ming clutched his chest, leaning against the wall, breathlessly said, “I… I can’t go on. I feel like I’m about to die… I… I need to rest a moment.”
附近传来震动声。
A vibration echoed from nearby.
几人抬头看去，只见旁边一栋二十多层高的商业楼的玻璃与结构层轰然塌陷，但诡异的是，它们在坠落的过程中不断化为一道道白色能量汇聚向下方。
Several people looked up and saw the glass and structural layer of a twenty-story commercial building next to them collapsing with a thunderous roar. But oddly enough, as they fell, they continuously transformed into streams of white energy converging downward.
杨子藏眉头皱了皱，他隐约抓到了些什么，可是还无法形成清晰的想法，只有种朦胧的感觉。
Yang Zicang furrowed his brow, vaguely grasping at something, yet he couldn’t form a clear thought—only a hazy feeling lingered.
背后的大街对面再次响起巴士怪物的轰鸣，伴随着若有若无的惨叫，又一人丢失了生命。
Behind them, across the street, the roar of the bus monster sounded again, accompanied by faint screams; another life had been lost.
「快别休息了啊，那边街道有动静，应该是其他人，我们去看看。」杨子藏鼓励道。
“Come on, don’t stop to rest. There’s movement in that street—should be others. Let’s check it out,” Yang Zicang encouraged.
刘明喘息着说：「万一又是怪物，不还是得死。」
Liu Ming gasped, “What if it’s another monster? Then we’re dead anyway.”
「操，那你就去死吧，连女孩子都不如。」
“Hell, then go ahead and die—even girls do better than you.”
杨子藏怒了，他转身在曲折巷子里往那大楼方向跑去。
Yang Zicang snapped, turned, and dashed through the winding alley toward the direction of the building.
「老子这会，可是七十八了。」被他一激，倒在地上的刘明又爬起来跟上。
“I’m sitting at a 78 this time, remember that,” Liu Ming, spurred by the insult, scrambled up from the ground and followed behind.
这几栋小区对面又是另一条街道，那栋坍塌的商业大楼就在这主干道上，此时它已经只剩楼板和方正的结构柱，仿佛是栋破败的烂尾楼。
Beyond these residential blocks lay another street. That collapsed commercial building now stood on the main road, stripped to floor slabs and rectangular structural pillars, looking like a dilapidated, unfinished ruin.
「那里有人。」
“Someone’s there.”
少女白嫩的手指指向商业大楼下的一道模糊身影，他身上被浓烈的白色线条所缠绕，不断散发各种曲线，这些线条互相纠缠，缩紧又膨胀。
The young girl’s fair fingers pointed at a blurry figure beneath the commercial building, his body enshrouded in thick white lines that constantly radiated various curves, intertwining, contracting, and expanding.
怪物，还是人类？
A monster, or a human?
巷道后方的老头冲来，杨子藏回头看了眼，只见身后不远处有浓烈黑烟正在冒出。
The old man rushed from behind the alley. Yang Zicang glanced back, seeing thick black smoke rising not far behind.
巴士怪物从另一边赶来了！
The bus monster was approaching from the other side!
商业大楼下那道身影外的光线猛然一缩。
The light around the figure beneath the commercial building suddenly contracted.
「快逃吧，我们在被怪物追。」 杨子藏道。
“Quick, run. We’re being chased by a monster,” said Yang Zicang.
「怪物… 恶魇吗？」那道穿著白色风衣，带著宽簷帽的男人起身望来。
“A monster… a nightmare?” The man in a white trench coat and wide-brimmed hat stood up and looked over.
男人的面容坚实，目光蕴含著璀璨精光，这面相一看便是人中龙凤，神俊非凡。
The man’s face was firm, his gaze sparkling with brilliance—his features marked him as an outstanding, extraordinary figure, dashing and divine.
一声巨大声响！
A series of loud crashes shook the air.
后方传来房屋倒塌的声音。
The sound of collapsing buildings came from behind.
「喔咯，这动静，你们居然还能活下来。」
“Oh, with such a commotion, you’re still alive.”
那白色风衣男人一步步走来，魁梧的手臂上纹著道送出香吻的美女纹身。
The man in the white trench coat strode forward step by step, a tattoo of a beauty blowing a kiss etched on his muscular arm.
「是什么东西，吃了多少人？」
“What kind of thing was it? How many people did it eat?”
「一辆车，大巴车，死了七八人，不，可能有十人了。」
“A car, a bus. Seven or eight dead—no, maybe ten by now.”
「我懂了。」
“I understand.”
男人胸膛出现粒白色闪光。
A white flash appeared on the man’s chest.
随著他的走动，这光芒扩散出将身体包围著的几何图形虚影，就像不断变化的三角形。
As he moved, this radiance spread into an ethereal geometric figure enveloping his body, like a constantly shifting triangle.
走过几人身前时，这幻影线条拉长靠近杨子藏。
When he passed before the group, the phantom lines elongated, drawing closer to Yang Zicang.
随著它的靠近，杨子藏看见自己心间也有一抹微弱光芒闪动，与这靠近的线条尖端相呼应。
As they approached, Yang Zicang saw a faint light flicker within his own heart, resonating with the tips of those approaching lines.
一道心灵感应般的讯息出现于心间，自己此刻已经与这人建立了某种神秘联系。
A telepathic message emerged in his mind: in that moment, they had established some mysterious connection.
而且，虽然是双眼看著这人走过，意识中却直接出现更大范围的景象，仿佛有另一个「视角」在第三人称俯视著这一切。
Moreover, though his eyes watched the man walking past, a broader scene appeared directly in his consciousness—as if another “perspective” were overlooking everything from a third-person, top-down view.
｛诸位，应该能直接听到我的心灵对话了吧。｝
{Honored guests, you should be able to hear my mental conversation directly by now, right?}
「好神奇。」 少女惊叹道。
“How amazing,” the girl exclaimed in awe.
｛你们可以称呼我为白鸳。 嗯… 那巴士恶魇至少蕴含著数百年的时序，我恐怕不一定能干得掉它，你们要投资点自己的寿命吗？ 这样我的胜算要大一点，只要高过它几十年就行。｝
{You can call me Bai Yuan. Hmm… that bus nightmare contains at least several centuries’ worth of Chronos. I’m afraid I might not be able to take it down alone. Would you like to Invest some of your own lifespans? That way, my odds of victory will increase—so long as I exceed its lifespan by just a few dozen years.}
白色风衣男人转头看向七老八十的几人，露出玩味的笑容。
The man in the white trench coat turned to look at the group of septuagenarians and octogenarians, a playful grin curling on his face.
这一次，他未用心念声，而是开口道：「把诸位的寿命暂时交给我支配吧。 我会用你们的寿命，来帮你们逃离恶魇的追杀。」
This time, instead of using his mind’s voice, he spoke aloud: “Entrust your lifespans to my command for now. I will use your lifespans to help you escape the pursuit of the nightmare.”