Ground Stars / 地上星 · Ch.20 第20章 找到新时序 。
第20章 找到新时序 。
Chapter 20: Finding a New Chronos
鼠人将枪铛地声插在坚硬的钢铁里，身影迅速地窜到倒立的枪尾，脚下用力一踏，凶猛的力道将枪身瞬间压弯。
The rat-man slammed the gun into the hard steel with a sharp clang, his figure swiftly darting to the upturned end of the weapon. With a forceful stamp of his foot, the brutal momentum instantly bent the barrel.
嗡！
Whoosh!
鼠人首领整个身体如被弹射般冲天而起。
The rat-man leader’s entire body shot into the air like a projectile.
还在半空的时候，长长的尾巴用力一卷枪身，自铁板拔出后朝著上方挥鞭刺去！
Still mid-air, he coiled his long tail tightly around the barrel, wrenched it free from the steel plate, and thrust it upward like a whip—stabbing forward!
嘭！
Boom!
长枪如利剑刺入凸出来的钢铁管道口。
Lance pierced into a protruding steel pipe like a sharp sword.
用尾巴卷住枪身的牠动作敏捷，两三下就窜了上去。
With the gun coiled around his tail, he moved with agility, scaling it in two swift moves.
梁喜看得心如手撕。
Liang Xi’s heart felt as if it were being torn apart.
在这个世界中，难得又有位真正关心自己的人，难道他也要死了吗！
In this world, to find someone who truly cares for you is rare—was he, of all people, going to die now?
月末时，最后那两分钟的画面映现在脑海。
At the end of the month, the image of those final two minutes flashed through his mind.
那是他们刚得知，居然要在120秒后每人扣除一百五十年时序消息时，父亲的震惊表情…
It was the shock on his father’s face when they just learned that, in 120 seconds, every one would have 150 years of Chronos deducted…
阿梁咬牙冲向通道深处，一定要坚持住啊，我一定要… 找到传说中的武器给你送过来！
A Liang gritted his teeth and charged deeper into the passage. You have to hold on. I must… find the legendary weapon and bring it to you!
距离此地几十公里外的猎怪者联盟驻地内，楚强感受著心灵连结中的画面，犹豫许久后，叹了口气。
In the Hunter Alliance base tens of kilometers away, Chu Chiang felt the images through their mental link. After a long hesitation, he let out a sigh.
「居然没有隐匿名字的选项吗…」
“So there’s no option to hide the name after all…”
他走到四楼视窗。
He walked to the window on the fourth floor.
下面宽大石楼上，沐小雨正拿著杯水与旁人说笑著，她身旁几人都没有收到这心灵连结的画面。
On the broad stone slab below, Mu Xiaoyu was holding a glass of water and chatting and laughing with others. None of the people around her received the psychic link image.
……
铖铖铛！
Clang! Clang! Dang!
枪影如雨刺来，杨子藏来不及全部躲避，仅是挨了两下便少了两百年时序。
The spear shadows rained down like a storm. Yang Zicang couldn’t dodge them all—just two hits cost him two hundred years of Chronos.
他躲避著三只怪物的攻击快速后退，那尾巴如同灵巧之手，再次挥长枪刺来。
He retreated quickly while evading attacks from the three monsters. Their tails acting like nimble hands thrust lances at him once more.
嘭！ 杨子藏再次感觉自己被抵消了一百年时序。
Bam! Yang Zicang felt another hundred years of Chronos stripped away from him.
每次都只是一百年，难道这枪是百年器！
Every strike shaved off exactly a hundred years—could this spear be a Cent-Arms!
三道身影追著杨子藏速度奇快的冲进那类似洞窟的房间中，一直好奇这上面是什么的附近众人终于得以一窥其貌。
Three figures chased after Yang Zicang at breakneck speed, charging straight into the cavern-like room. Those nearby, who had been curious about what was up there, finally got a glimpse of its contents.
「纯度好高的魔石。」 罗鑫身旁的人说道。
“Such high-purity mana stones.” Said the person beside Luo Xin.
「我还以为这上面有什么特殊，原来仅仅只是这些东西。」
“I thought there was something special up there, but it’s just these things.”
仅仅几秒，这里就一片混乱，鼠人的枪法劲猛霸道，两枪就将这里横扫了遍，无数碎裂的魔石乱飞。
Within just a few seconds, chaos erupted. The rat-man’s gunmanship was fierce and overbearing; two shots swept through the area, sending countless shattered mana stones flying everywhere.
「可恶啊，算上本金，我只有三千多年的时序了！」
“Damn it! Counting the principal, I only have over three thousand years’ worth of Chronos left!”
调度能力根本不敢停下，但杨子藏还是被这劲风扫到，长枪的横扫面积囊括了整个洞穴。
He dare not stop his mana deployment for a single moment, yet Yang Zicang was still caught by the fierce wind—Lance’s sweeping strike engulfed the entire cavern.
轰轰轰！
Boom! Boom! Boom!
这一枪携带无匹威势，被逼到墙角的杨子藏下意识拿漆黑铁书挡去，但这力道及其强横，一枪钉在书上将他打进墙体。
This strike carried unparalleled momentum, forcing Yang Zicang, backed into a corner, to instinctively raise his pitch-black iron tome to block it. Yet the force was brutally overwhelming, and the spear slammed into the book, driving him deep into the wall.
墙面轰然垮塌。
The wall collapsed with a thunderous roar.
时序瞬间少了数百年。
Chronos lost hundreds of years in an instant.
「呃~！」 他大脑充血般激动，死亡的阴影笼罩。
“Urgh~!” His brain surged with blood as the shadow of death loomed over him.
轰隆！
Boom!
忽地，三只鼠人背后，那铁门敞开的缝隙中，无数被映红的黑暗阴影冒了出来。
Suddenly, from the gap in the iron door behind the three ratmen, countless dark silhouettes, tinged crimson by the glow, surged forth.
抵挡铁门的碎石已经被枪影碾碎。
The rubble that had been holding the iron door was ground to dust by the spear’s afterimages.
少女凄然的呓语响起。
A mournful whisper from the girl echoed through the air.
灰尘覆盖的杨子藏睁眼看去，只见三道鼠人仿佛被什么震慑般齐齐呆立原地。
Lifting his dust-covered face, Yang Zicang saw the three ratmen standing frozen in place, as if paralyzed by some unknown force.
它们胸口的银白光环迅速变得暗红、深沉，闪烁著妖异的光芒。
The silver-white halos on their chests rapidly darkened to a deep, eerie crimson, flickering with a malevolent glow.
｛还差一百只…｝
{A hundred more remain…}
一道暗沉的男姓声音，毫无感情的在所有人关注者的心间响起。
A deep, emotionless male voice resonated in the minds of all who were watching.
鼠人首领发出尖锐啸声。
The ratman leader let out a piercing shriek.
外界那些老鼠们前仆后继地冲出悬崖，垂直坠落向下方的坑道。
Outside, the swarm of rats charged relentlessly over the cliff’s edge, plummeting straight down into the tunnel below.
一道道暗影自内脏摔破的怪物躯体冒出，划过空间汇聚向铁门之后。
One by one, dark shadows emerged from the shattered bodies of the monsters whose innards had burst forth, streaking through the air to converge behind the iron door.
大殿内，悬挂不知多少岁月的那人影体内，孕育的怪物气息逐渐拔高。
Within the great hall, the monsterous aura rising from within that silhouette, which had hung suspended for untold ages, gradually grew stronger.
｛爸爸… 死了，呜呜，呃啊啊啊啊啊啊。｝
{Daddy… is dead, waaah, aahhhh—ehehehehehe!}
这声音下，杨子藏情绪接近疯狂。
Under that voice, Yang Zicang’s emotions edged toward madness.
｛还差十只，只差十只，不要停。｝
{Just ten more, only ten more—don’t stop.}
鼠人身上银白光芒大盛，压下红光。
The rat-man’s body blazed with intense silver light, suppressing the crimson glow.
啸声终止了，鼠人似乎获得了更多的奇异力量，将「抵御者」的精神影响抵御住的同时，三角形闪动，一枪刺来。
The whistling ceased, and the rat-man seemed to gain even more of that strange power. While resisting the spiritual influence of the “Resister,” his triangle flickered, and he thrust his spear forward.
鼠人身后的铁门在此刻同时被无形之力推开，两个抱著头挣扎的老鼠头颅砰然炸裂。
At that same moment, the iron door behind the rat-man was pushed open by an invisible force, and the heads of two struggling rats exploded with a loud bang.
｛还差八只，快继续下令，为我献祭。｝
{Eight more left. Give the order quickly, sacrifice them for me.}
门后，大殿那道身影的猩红复眼张开，看向这边。
Behind the door, the crimson compound eyes of the figure in the great hall opened, gazing this way.
杨子藏与之对视后，脑袋嗡地声，失去了意识，只是茫然地张著眼看向对方。
After locking eyes with it, Yang Zicang felt his mind go blank, losing consciousness as he stared blankly ahead.
老鼠惩戒者的这一枪再无可避。
This thrust from the Rat Punisher was now unavoidable.
[虚零时序投入，1000N，剩余 12 分 47 秒。 因为我是神秘的三角形，所以我可以三倍增幅！]
[Chronos Void invested, 1000N, 12 minutes 47 seconds remaining. Because I am the mysterious triangle, I can triple boost!]
银白长枪的交接处豁然闪过黑色幻影，如同旋转的微型黑洞，它将年轻人的躯体往前吸去。
A black phantom suddenly flashed at the junction of the silver-white Lance, like a spinning miniature black hole, pulling the young man’s body forward.
同时被吸而起的，还有另一个东西，是那已经碎裂的黑铁之书。
Simultaneously, something else was drawn forward as well—the shattered book of black iron.
砰！ 长枪穿透黑洞幻影，穿透书页神像，穿透碎裂出大洞的整本铁书，枪尖刺入杨子藏胸前，猩红鲜血洒出。
Bang! The Lance pierced through the black hole phantom, tore through the pages’ divine image, and bore straight through the entire torn-open iron tome, its spearpoint stabbing into Yang Zicang’s chest, splattering crimson blood.
[时序减少 3000N。]
[Chronos: Decrease by 3000N.]
杨子藏感觉自己的生命在迅速消减，头发在数秒内变得花白，这刺痛让他已经停止思考的神经略微清醒了点。
Yang Zicang felt his life draining away rapidly; in mere seconds, his hair turned grizzled white. The stabbing pain faintly roused his nerves, which had long ceased to think.
[制裁完结。]
[Judgment concluded.]
做出这一击的惩戒者像是完成了任务，身上的Moexl光芒消散。
The Punisher who struck that blow, as though fulfilling its duty, let the glow of Moxel fade from its form.
它顿时失去理智的大吼，恢复了普通巢穴首领的身份。
It instantly let out a frenzied, senseless roar, reverting to its common status as a lair overlord.
门后的红色光芒轻易融入鼠人首领的身躯，让它嗓音高亢地嘶吼而出。
The crimson radiance from beyond the gate easily melted into the ratman leader’s frame, forcing a strident shriek from its throat.
外界那处断裂通道内怪物四散逃离，仅剩几只未跑远点老鼠听见这啸声，再次不顾性命地调转步伐冲向悬崖外。
Outside, the monsters inside the fractured passage fled in all directions; only a few rats that had not scattered far heard this cry, wheeling back without regard for their lives and charging over the cliff’s edge again.
杨子藏胸前光环出现，其内小数点后的数位飞速变小。
A halo ring appeared around Yang Zicang’s chest, the digits to the right of the decimal point shrinking with dizzying speed.
[剩余时序 0.0R]
[Remaining Chronos: 0.0R]
杨子藏吃力垂头，逐渐模糊的视线看向这把刺入胸前的长枪。
Yang Zicang struggled to lower his head, vision growing dim, and cast his hazy gaze upon the Lance stabbed into his chest.
银枪前端的黑洞开始旋转，让枪身开始扭曲，即将旋著进入黑洞之内，消失在此世间。
The black hole at the tip of the silver lance began to spin, twisting the shaft as it was about to spiral into the void and vanish from this world.
忽地，胸前圆环内的数位格位豁然拉长。
Suddenly, the digital positions within the circle on his chest stretched outward.
Moexl像是要在绝无可能中寻找到一个不是0的数位。
Moxel seemed to search for a digit that was not zero in the utterly impossible.
一个红细胞细胞死了，紧接著是一个扭曲著抓在皮肤内的神经网衰败。
A red blood cell died, followed by a nerve net twisted within the skin, decaying.
[剩余时序 0.0000000001R。]
[Remaining Chronos 0.0000000001R.]
「这里不是地球，这里是… 时序的殿堂。」
“This isn’t Earth—this is… the hall of Chronos.”
身体颤抖，体内无数细菌、细胞同时死去。
His body trembled as countless bacteria and cells within him perished at once.
[剩余时序 0.00000326R！]
[Remaining Chronos 0.00000326R!]
垂头的杨子藏双手一把抓住扎入心窝的银白枪身。
Yang Zicang, head hung low, grasped the silver shaft embedded in his heart with both hands.
茫然的大脑此刻只有一个命令。
In his dazed mind, only one command remained.
在生命归零前，找到新的时序。
Before his life reset to zero, find new Chronos.
同时，那冷漠无情的声音道：
At the same time, the cold, merciless voice spoke:
｛还差一只，仅差一只。｝
{Just one more, just one more.}
这一切都只发生在电光石火之间。
All this happened in the span of a lightning flash.
变得矮小些的老鼠首领的头颅血管猛然膨胀起来。
The head of the rat chief, now slightly shrunken, swelled abruptly with bursting blood vessels.
「呀啊啊！」
“Aaaaaah!”
苍老的杨子藏，用尽最后的力气拔出变短的长枪掷出。
The aged Yang Zicang, using the last of his strength, yanked out the shortened lance and hurled it.
已经缩入黑洞内大半部分的银枪穿过前方空间！
The silver spear, most of it already swallowed by the black hole, tore through the space ahead!
嘭！
Bang!
老鼠首领的头颅爆开的同时，这枪身从其头内挥过！
The rat leader’s head exploded, and in that same instant, the lance shaft whisked through its cranium!
不知到底是算做谁的最终击杀。
It was unclear to whom the final kill should ultimately be attributed.
无数炸裂的秽物携带大半个表情痛苦的怪物头颅被这杆银色长枪吸入黑洞，同时被吸进的，还有那刚诞生的，无人可见的黑暗虚影。
Countless blasted filth, along with more than half of the monster’s head still bearing a pained grimace, were drawn into the black hole by the silver Lance. Also drawn in was the newborn, unseen dark phantom.
｛胆敢！｝
{How dare you!}
意念中爆发抵御者的雷霆爆喝。
Within his mind, the resolute thunderous roar of a defender erupted.
[我收获了 56.3N。]
[I have harvested 56.3N. ]
大殿内红芒漫天，数百道阴影冲出怪物躯体，划过大殿冲来。
The hall was filled with a crimson light as hundreds of shadows burst forth from the monster’s body, sweeping across the chamber.
「啊！」
“Ahhh!”
杨子藏疯狂大吼。
Yang Zicang let out a wild roar.
[初级尸跳使用。]
[Primary Corpse Jump initiated. ]
双腿屈蹬，此刻血迹斑斑，苍老枯槁的他真如复生的丧尸般前扑出去。
His legs coiled and pushed off, and now, covered in blood with a withered and aged appearance, he lunged forward like a resurrected zombie.
皮肤与发色迅速恢复。
His skin and hair color quickly restored.
[调度。]
[Command. ]
杨子藏诡异的在空中旋转身体，调整姿态，让手触碰铁门砰地关上的同时，能让自己也撞在门上，将铁门压紧。
Yang Zicang twisted his body in the air with an uncanny precision, adjusting his stance so that as his hand slammed the iron door shut with a bang, his own body would crash against it, pressing the door tight.
砰咚！
Bang! Thud!
阴森恐怖感瞬间消失。
The chilling, eerie atmosphere vanished in an instant.
[41号评议委员诧异于我的精神韧性。 只因我在时序归零之后，靠意志延长了额外的三点二六秒身体本能，并完成时序夺取。]
[Rating Committee Member No. 41 was astonished by my mental tenacity, for after Chronos reset to zero, I relied on sheer willpower to extend my physical instincts by an additional 3.26 seconds and successfully seized Chronos.]
[我在绝境中找到了新可能。]
[In the depths of despair, I found a new possibility.]
[我，伟大的四边形，收获了一枚完整邮徽。 这是评议委员会对我的存活抵偿。]
[I, the great Quad, have harvested a complete Mail Insignia. This is the Recompense Assessment Committee’s compensation for my survival.]
皮肤饱满充盈，心脏恢复跳动，但更多鲜红血液也快速自心窝骇然伤口流淌而出。
My skin was plump and full, my heart resumed beating, but more crimson blood also swiftly gushed from the appalling wound over my heart.
[41号评议委员解除了枪形时序战器的归属权。]
[Assessment Committee Member No. 41 lifted the ownership restriction of the gun-shaped Chronos combat device.]
[41号评议委员告知我，错过了「废弃母体」最佳击杀时机。]
[Assessment Committee Member No. 41 informed me that the prime opportunity to kill the “Waste Mother” had been missed.]
[41号评议委员为我标记了「成熟抵御者」的存在。]
[Assessment Committee Member No. 41 marked the existence of a “Mature Resistor” for me.]
[发现成熟抵御者，发现者：应选者杨子藏。]
[Mature Resistor discovered, Discoverer: ElectYang Zicang.]
杨子藏迷迷糊糊的靠在铁门上，腰下是被怪物荡碎的堵门岩石。
Yang Zicang, dazed and confused, leaned against the iron door, with the rock below his waist that had been shattered by the monster.
在最后，他的生命已经归零，但是身体的余势却执行著大脑最后的命令：拔枪，挥枪。
At the very end, his life force had already hit zero, but the residual momentum of his body carried out his brain’s final command: draw the gun, swing the gun.
手上不断缩短进入黑洞的枪身停止，随后倒转著出现完整银色长枪的面貌。
The gun barrel in his hand, which was continuously shortening as it entered the black hole, stopped, and then reversed to reveal the complete form of a silver Lance.
数道心灵连结的线条划来，但昏迷的杨子藏已经没有接取它们的清醒意志力。
Several lines of mental connection shot over, but the unconscious Yang Zicang no longer had the waking willpower to receive them.
……
某处。
Somewhere.
这节赤黄地铁车厢内干净明亮。
This car of the iron-red subway was clean and bright.
杵剑坐于金属长椅上的银色制服男人沉默垂首。
On a metal bench, a man in a silver uniform sat with his sword planted beside him, his head bowed in silence.
他的眼眸半睁，目光死一般止静。
His eyes were half open, with a gaze deathly still.
香风拂来，曲线紧致的修长美腿停在马超身边，女孩蹲下道：
A fragrant breeze swept by, and a pair of tightly sculpted, slender legs stopped beside Matt Chao. The girl crouched down and said,
「据说，他死了。 这下子可以跟人家回去了嘛。」
“They say he’s dead. Now you can come back with me, right?”
「他没死。」
“He’s not dead.”
男人抬起头来，帅气的面容冷漠无情。
The man lifted his head, his handsome face cold and expressionless.
「看来，连世界也认同，他注定死在我的剑下。 我开始有点欣赏他了。」
“It seems even the world agrees that he is destined to die by my sword. I’m starting to have some admiration for him.”