Ground Stars / 地上星 · Ch.69 第69章 年底排名与新世界的消息
第69章 年底排名与新世界的消息
Chapter 69: Year-End Rankings and News of the New World
「杨子藏扭转了战局，总部和雄英组的人都在威胁他！」
“Yang Zicang turned the tide of battle—both headquarters and the Brave Eagles are threatening him!”
更多的人高声大喊，他们生怕杨子藏找他们算账，这会迫不及待说起赞美之言。
More voices rose louder, each person desperate to sing praises for fear Yang Zicang might hold a grudge against them.
赵安龙听了阵，脸色古怪的看著身前的男人：「说实话，要不是…还真想现在就带走妳。」
Listening for a moment, Zhao Anlong wore a peculiar expression as he looked at the man before him and said, “Honestly, if it weren’t for… I’d really want to take you away right now.”
纠结了下，他有点不放心地叮嘱道：
Hesitating slightly, he urged with some unease:
「好小子，壹定要把剑给到她手里啊，作为交易我可以告诉妳壹个秘密，在交错地，注意只能是交错地而不是异度空间，可以累积超过万年时序而不会离开城市。」
“Good kid, make sure to deliver that sword to her hands. As a deal, I’ll tell you a secret: in the Forge Cross—and note, only the Forge Cross, not any other alien space—you can accumulate over ten thousand Chronos without leaving the city.
「但只要空间稳定完毕就会瞬间离开，知道了吗。还有，不要在这里了解关于异界太多东西，否则到时候我们就是敌人了。」
“But the moment the space stabilizes, you’ll leave instantly. Got it? And don’t delve too much into otherworldly matters here, or else we’ll become enemies then.”
「我知道了，谢谢。妳放心，我会把武器交给她手上。」
“I understand. Thank you. Don’t worry, I’ll put that weapon in her hands.”
「妳知道她是谁吗！」
Do you even know who she is?”
「放心吧，楚强那儿还有我两千全权时序，赵雪美还给我投资过壹百年。」
“Relax, Chu Chiang still has two thousand full-bound Chronos of mine, and Zhao Xuemei once invested one hundred years with me.”
赵安龙大喜！
Zhao Anlong’s face lit up with joy!
「噢，好好好，哈哈哈。原来妳们是熟人。」
“Oh, good, good—ha ha ha. So you’re all acquainted.”
他笑眯眯的道：「那带我到处走走吧，我好久没回来了，楚强认识的话，带我去见见他们好吗。」
He said with a sly smile, “Then take me around for a bit. It’s been ages since I last returned. If you know Chu Chiang, lead me to see them, okay?”
虽然他看上去在努力保持正常，但杨子藏的精神力不断在告知自己，此人很危险，他非常危险，他在注视著自己，充满某种强烈欲望地注视。
Though he appeared to be trying his best to act normal, Yang Zicang’s psychic sense kept telling him that this man was dangerous, extremely dangerous—he was watching him, watching him with some kind of intense desire.
自从赵安龙站在身前，哪怕他努力抑制自己的气息，也不断散发著压迫，让自己感觉随时会被完全摧毁，因此杨子藏挤了个笑容。
Ever since Zhao Anlong stood before him, despite his efforts to suppress his aura, a constant pressure radiated, making Yang Zicang feel as if he could be utterly annihilated at any moment. As a result, he forced a smile.
「谢谢妳的帮助，妳可以回去了。」
“Thank you for your help. You can go back now.”
赵安龙脸色壹变。
Zhao Anlong’s face changed instantly.
「妳这个家伙。」
“You bastard.”
赵安龙想要拿手拽起杨子藏的衣服，但随著这话音的落下，他们身前闪动起细密的金色电光。
Zhao Anlong reached out to grab Yang Zicang by the clothes, but as his words fell, a dense, golden electric light flickered between them.
「毫无感恩之心…快收回妳的话…」
“How ungrateful… Take back what you said…”
两人像是处于不同时空般，这些金色闪电将两人之间隔绝。
The two seemed to exist in different dimensions, the golden lightning separating them from each other.
「干妳娘的，快，带我去见楚强！」
“Fuck you! Now, take me to see Chu Chiang!”
雷声滚滚，赵安龙的身影愈来愈虚幻。
Thunder rumbled. Zhao Anlong’s figure grew more and more illusory.
｛用完就丢对吧，别让我再见到…｝
{Using someone and then throwing them away, huh? Don’t let me see you again…}
霹啪，赵安龙消失在电场之后。
Crackling, Zhao Anlong vanished behind that electric field.
｛很好，妳没有同意跟他壹起离开。｝
{Good, you didn’t agree to leave with him.}
41号议员似乎心情很好，语调波澜不惊的他此刻也有闲心跟自己多说两句了。
Councilor No. 41 seemed to be in a good mood; his usual calm, unwavering tone now showed he had the leisure to chat with him a bit more.
压迫壹消失，杨子藏感觉自己周身的血液又开始流转了，大脑都变得清晰许多，想了下，他突然灵光壹闪。
The moment the pressure vanished, Yang Zicang felt his blood begin to flow again, his mind clearing considerably. After a moment’s thought, a sudden flash of inspiration hit him.
「等下，之前那个召唤名片原本的作用，是可以选定壹个人带我离开的吗。」
“Wait, wasn’t the original function of that summoning card to let me select someone to take me away?”
｛它的真正作用便是如此。如果妳提出要求，他必须首选带妳离开。但若主动拒绝，那么他能带其他人离开。｝
{That was indeed its true purpose. Had you made the request, he would have had to prioritize taking you away. But since you refused proactively, he was able to take someone else.}
杨子藏终于有精力能够从变得破败的地上站立起来，这处怪物巢穴已经不存在了。
Yang Zicang finally mustered the strength to stand up from the now-ruined ground; this monster’s lair had ceased to exist.
「啊，那不是…赵雪美她。」
“Ah, isn’t that… Zhao Xuemei she—”
杨子藏感觉有点抱歉，早知道自己该带赵安龙去见他的女朋友的。
Yang Zicang felt a twinge of regret, wishing he had taken Zhao Anlong to see his girlfriend earlier.
那家伙明明没办法完美控制自己的演技，就不应该故意瞒著自己啊，壹看就有阴谋的好不好。
That guy, clearly unable to fully control his acting skills, shouldn’t have deliberately kept it from him; it reeked of a conspiracy, didn’t it?
百年器旋转著收入黑洞消失。
Cent-Arms spun, shrinking into the black hole and vanishing.
｛妳没有离开也有好处。｝
{Despite your refusal to leave, there were still benefits.}
「好处？」杨子藏好奇的擡头道。
“Benefits?” Yang Zicang looked up with curiosity.
夜风灌入大了壹倍的凹坑内，空气新鲜许多。
The night wind poured into the pit, now twice its original size, making the air much fresher.
｛因为击败了抵御者，所以妳们的城市排名得以提升。｝
{Because you defeated a Challenger, your city’s ranking has been improved.}
｛关于妳的奖励，会在年底的城市排名考核中出现。届时，努力去通过它吧。｝
{Your reward for this will appear in the city ranking assessment at the end of the year. When the time comes, strive to pass it.}
「奖励不应该是现在得到吗，还要靠别的事件来获得？」
“Shouldn’t my reward be given now? Do I have to wait for some other event to trigger it?”
｛召唤名片本身就是奖励，因妳未因此获利，所以年底那份奖励，是我额外给予妳的回报。它必须有正当理由到达妳的手中。｝
{The summoning card itself is a reward, but since you haven’t profited from it, that year-end reward is an extra compensation from me. It must reach you under a legitimate pretext.}
那还真得感谢这41号议员了。
Well, I suppose I really have that Councilor No. 41 to thank for this.
「那关于我的额外奖励是什么呢？」
“So, what exactly is this extra reward for me?”
杨子藏没话找话的道，他感觉自己还有很多问题想问，却壹时又壹个都想不起来，只得拖延时间。
Yang Zicang made small talk. He felt a flood of questions he wanted to ask but couldn’t seem to recall a single one, so he opted to stall for time.
｛壹个普通人的回忆录。｝
{The memoir of an ordinary person.}
议员的注视消失。
The Councilor’s gaze vanished.
整座城市的所有银白Moexl的人内心同时出现道信息：
Every silver Moxel citizen across the entire city suddenly received a message in their minds:
[抵御者已被消灭，消灭者：应选者杨子藏，燎光者赵安龙。己方每人获得虚零时序300N。]
[The Resister has been eliminated. Eliminators: ElectYang Zicang and Flare-Zhao Anlong. Each ally receives False Zero Chronos 300N.]
[我已获得虚零时序300N，持续时间至本月末。]
[I have received False Zero Chronos 300N, effective until the end of this month.]
杨子藏感受著这新得到的，无法支配的额外三百年时序。
Yang Zicang sensed the newly acquired yet uncontrollable three hundred additional Chronos.
……
夜风浩荡，杨子藏站在空旷许多的地面扭头望去，壹片破败。
The night wind howled fiercely. Standing on the now much more barren ground, Yang Zicang turned his head to look—a scene of utter desolation lay before him.
还好，虽然人们看上去都灰头土脸，但抵御者的能量扩散并未携带多少时序，这些人们在第壹次的震荡中被抵消几十年后，百分之九十以上的人都存活了下来。
Fortunately, although the people looked covered in dust and dirt, the energy diffusion from the Defenders carried little Chronos. After the initial shock wave offset several decades from their lifespans, more than ninety percent of these people survived.
「居然…解决了。」
“It’s… finally over.”
小声滴咕的他们，看向杨子藏的目光中充满著复杂的情绪。
Muttering these words softly, they turned to look at Yang Zicang with eyes filled with complex emotions.
有些人羡慕自己，有人畏惧，也有人在琢磨这小子是不是又得到了什么好处。
Some envied him, others feared him, and some were pondering whether this kid had managed to gain some new benefit yet again.
翻滚的泥土种，黄旭爬出，有些失魂落魄地看向地上半掩自己的灰尘，脑中下意识的想著——刚才那个家伙还算是人吗——他哪来的？
Amidst the churning soil, Huang Hsu crawled out, looking dazedly at the dust half-covered on the ground. His mind involuntarily thought: was that guy back there even human—and where had he come from?
瞧见几十米外杨子藏看过来的目光，黄旭如大梦初醒般转动了下头，将脸上的泥土碎末抖落，壹句话也没有说。
Catching Yang Zicang’s gaze from tens of meters away, Huang Hsu, as if waking from a dream, turned his head slightly, shook off the clods of earth and grit from his face, and said not a single word.
他的大巴车「孩子」从始至终都未再出现。
His bus-like “child” never appeared again from start to finish.
「妳的怪物呢。」杨子藏走过来。
“Where’s your monster now?” Yang Zicang walked closer.
「杀了我吧。」
“Just kill me.”
「喔？看上去妳并不怎么疯狂了。」
“Oh? You don’t seem so crazed anymore.”
「呵，怪物会影响人的情绪，我也不辩解什么，出手吧，我还有几百年可以给妳。」
“Ha, monsters can affect human emotions. I won’t argue with that. Make your move; I still have a few hundred years to spare for you.”
黄旭闭上了自己的双眼。
Huang Hsu closed his eyes.
微风扫荡在脸上，他重新睁开眼，发现这个同壹辆车上下来的青年已经远去。
A gentle breeze swept across his face. He opened his eyes again and saw that the young man who had gotten off the same bus had already walked far away.
黄旭感受了下胸前Moexl，里面跟大巴车恶魇的联系已经微弱无比，对方像是彻底的放弃了自己。
Huang Hsu felt the Moxel in his chest. The connection with the nightmare of the bus was now extremely faint, as if the other party had completely given up on him.
「恶魇…」
“Nightmare…”
他低声念刀了句这个词，忽地自己垂泪哭了起来：「黄旭，妳到底做了什么…为什么会…」
He muttered the word in a low voice, then suddenly burst into tears: “Huang Hsu, what have you done… Why did this…”
杨子藏翻上地面，壹队队的人在自发从废墟中收寻被掩埋的人。
Yang Zicang climbed back onto the ground, where teams of people were voluntarily searching through the ruins for those buried alive.
虽然大家拥有时序可以抵消冲击伤害，但缺乏食物与水的情况下，到达极限状态时序会不断抵消，最终在痛苦中死亡。
Although everyone possessed Chronos to neutralize impact damage, without food and water, once a critical point was reached, Chronos would constantly offset the damage, ultimately leading to a painful death.
壹直关注著这边情况的莫里深受震撼。
Morris, who had been closely watching the situation, was deeply shaken.
｛他好强大啊，这么厉害的存在还算是人类吗。｝
{He’s so powerful—can something this formidable still be considered human?}
同时他也知道些信息，原来消失的人都去往了另壹个地方。
At the same time, he was privy to some information—the missing had gone to another place after all.
「谁知道，人类或许本就可以那么强吧。」
“Who knows? Maybe humans could always be this strong.”
杨子藏真心的感谢道。
Yang Zicang expressed his heartfelt gratitude.
「无论怎么说，这次都多亏妳了，以后若是有机会，我会回报妳的。」
“No matter what, this time, I owe it all to you. If there’s an opportunity in the future, I’ll repay you.”
｛唉，子藏先生，若真想回报我们，就想办法让我们跟著妳混吧，可惜我们在不同的城市，只是组成队伍也没法进入妳的城市中呢。｝
{Ah, Mr. Zicang, if you truly want to repay us, just find a way to let us follow your lead. But what a pity—we’re in different cities, and even forming a team wouldn’t let us enter your turf.}
杨子藏的头望了望，他笑道：「虽然我们没在壹个城市，这次不也干得很不错吗。」
Yang Zicang gazed up and chuckled: “Though we’re not in the same city, we pulled off a pretty solid job this time, didn’t we?”
｛是完美！｝
{It was perfect!}
壹个男孩声音用比较蹩脚的中文道。
A boy’s voice chimed in, in somewhat awkward Chinese.
「妳就是波波利？」
“You must be Popoli?”
｛是努恩斯.波布.波利！不过大神叫我波波利也无所谓的啦，哈哈哈。｝
{I’m Nunns. Bobur. Poli! But it’s no big deal for a pro player like me to call me Popoli, hahaha.}
「谢谢妳，波波利，谢谢妳们，我这边要跟别人做下联系，所以我暂时先断掉。」
“Thank you, Popoli, and thank you all. I need to get in touch with someone on my end, so I’ll cut the line here for now.”
自己可是以两人之力在对抗整个雄英组的时序，那是何其庞大的时序数量，若不是有莫里，自己根本不可能成功。
He had been fighting Chronos, that colossal horde of the Xiongying Guild, with just the strength of two men—only with Morris’s help could he have ever succeeded.
……
附近瞧见杨子藏的人走也不是，过来问好也不是，毕竟现在还在附近的，至少壹半都是曾来劝说他放手之人。
Nearby, those who caught sight of Yang Zicang hesitated, unsure whether to leave or come over to greet him, as at least half the people around now had once tried to persuade him to give up.
谁知他竟然为银白Moexl之人每人都争取道了三百年虚零时序，连那些还未获得Moexl的新人也有份。
Little did they expect he’d fought for every member of Yinyin Moxel to gain three hundred years of Vestige Chronos, including the newcomers who weren’t even equipped with Moxels yet.
这个月不会有人因为扣除时序而死了！
No one would die this month from Chronos deductions!
「子，子藏大神。」这些人有点不知说什么地在原地扭捏著。
“Zi… Mr. Zicang,” some people stuttered, faltering on the spot, unsure of what to say.
「尽快救人吧。」
“Hurry up and save the hostages.”
杨子藏撂下这句话就往梁喜壹行人之前的位置而去。但刚断掉链接，就有数道折线闪来。
Yang Zicang left these words behind and headed toward where Liang Xi and the others had been. But as soon as the connection was severed, several folding lines flashed over.
它们实际上壹直都在试图与自己联系。
They had actually been trying to contact him all along.
感受了下它们所蕴含的「投资宣言」，半数以上都是在请求自己去帮忙。
Sensing the “Invest Declaration” embedded within them, more than half were requests for him to help.
杨子藏随机与壹人链接。
Yang Zicang randomly linked with one of them.
｛太好了，终于联上了。子藏大神，请您快帮我们救救总部的人吧！｝
{Great, finally connected. Master ZiCang, please hurry and help us save the people at headquarters!}