“Yang Zicang turned the tide of battle, and people from both Headquarters and the Xiong Ying Group are threatening him!”
“杨子藏扭转了战局，总部和雄英组的人都在威胁他！”
More people shouted loudly, eager to speak words of praise, afraid that Yang Zicang would settle scores with them.
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。
Zhao Anlong listened for a moment, then looked at the man in front of him with a strange expression on his face. “To be honest, if it weren’t for… I’d really want to take you away right now.”
赵安龙听了阵，脸色古怪的看着身前的男人：“说实话，要不是…还真想现在就带走你。”
After some hesitation, he reminded with a hint of concern:
纠结了下，他有点不放心地叮嘱道：
“Good lad, you must deliver the sword to her hands. As a trade, I can tell you a secret: within the Confluence Grounds—and note, only the Confluence Grounds, not other dimensions—it’s possible to accumulate over ten thousand years of sequence without leaving this city.
“好小子，一定要把剑给到她手里啊，作为交易我可以告诉你一个秘密，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。
“But once the space stabilizes completely, you’ll be forced out instantly. Got it? Also, don’t probe too much into the Other Side matters in this place, or else we’ll end up on opposite sides when the time comes.”
“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。”
“I understand. Thank you. Rest assured, I will deliver the weapon into her hands.”
“我知道了，谢谢。你放心，我会把武器交给她手上。”
“Do you even know who she is?”
“你知道她是谁吗！”
“Rest assured, Chu Qiang holds two thousand full-authority sequences from me there, and FuMeng Xue also invested a hundred years in me.”
“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一百年。”
Zhao Anlong was overjoyed!
赵安龙大喜！
“Oh, well, well! Haha. So you two go way back.”
“噢，好好好，哈哈哈。原来你们是熟人。”
He said with a smirk, “Then take me around, will you? I haven’t been back for ages. If you know Chu Qiang, bring me to meet him, okay?”
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。”
Although he was making an effort to appear normal, Yang Zicang’s spiritual senses kept warning him: This man is dangerous, extremely dangerous. He’s watching me, staring with an intense obsession.
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，他在注视着自己，充满某种强烈欲望地注视。
Ever since Zhao Anlong stood before him, even while suppressing his aura, he continually radiated a pressure that made Yang Zicang feel he could be utterly annihilated at any moment—so he forced a smile.
自从赵安龙站在身前，哪怕他努力抑制自己的气息，也不断散发着压迫，让自己感觉随时会被完全摧毁，因此杨子藏挤了个笑容。
“Thank you for your help. You can head back now.”
“谢谢你的帮助，你可以回去了。”
Zhao Anlong’s expression darkened.
赵安龙脸色一变。
“What the hell, you.”
“你这个家伙。”
Zhao Anlong reached out to grab Yang Zicang’s collar, but as the words fell, fine golden electric light flickered between them.
赵安龙想要拿手拽起杨子藏的衣服，但随着这话音的落下，他们身前闪动起细密的金色电光。
“Have some gratitude… take back your words now…”
“毫无感恩之心…快收回你的话…”
The two seemed to exist in different dimensions, the golden lightning severing the space between them.
两人像是处于不同时空般，这些金色闪电将两人之间隔绝。
“Damn it, take me to Chu Qiang, now!”
“干你娘的，快，带我去见楚强！”
Thunder rumbled, and Zhao Anlong’s figure grew increasingly ethereal.
雷声滚滚，赵安龙的身影愈来愈虚幻。
{Using me and throwing me away, huh? Don’t let me see you again…}
{用完就丢对吧，别让我再见到…}
Crackle—Zhao Anlong vanished behind the electric field.
噼啪，赵安龙消失在电场之后。
{Good, you didn’t agree to leave with him.}
{很好，你没有同意跟他一起离开。}
Councilor No. 41 seemed to be in a good mood, his normally calm tone carrying a rare hint of leisure as he indulged in a few more words.
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。
As the pressure vanished, Yang Zicang felt the blood flow again through his body, his mind clearing. After a moment’s thought, a flash of insight struck him.
压迫一消失，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，他突然灵光一闪。
“Wait, the original function of that summon card earlier—was it to choose someone to take me away?”
“等下，之前那个召唤名片原本的作用，是可以选定一个人带我离开的吗。”
{That is indeed its true purpose. If you made the request, he would have had to prioritize taking you away. But if you voluntarily refuse, then he can take others.}
{它的真正作用便是如此。如果你提出要求，他必须首选带你离开。但若主动拒绝，那么他能带其他人离开。}
Yang Zicang finally found the strength to stand up from the now-ruined ground; this monster’s lair was no more.
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。
“Ah, isn’t that… Fulrry Zhao she—”
“啊，那不是…赵雪美她。”
Yang Zicang felt a pang of regret; he should have taken Zhao Anlong to see his girlfriend earlier.
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。
That guy clearly couldn’t fully control his acting skills, yet he deliberately kept things from me—it was obviously suspicious, right?
那家伙明明没办法完美控制自己的演技，就不应该故意瞒着自己啊，一看就有阴谋的好不好。
The Century Weapon spun and disappeared as it was drawn into the black hole.
百年器旋转着收入黑洞消失。
{Your decision not to leave also had its benefits.}
{你没有离开也有好处。}
“Benefits?” Yang Zicang looked up curiously.
“好处？”杨子藏好奇的抬头道。
The night wind rushed into the now doubled-in-size pit, making the air much fresher.
夜风灌入大了一倍的凹坑内，空气新鲜许多。
{Because you defeated the Defender, your city’s ranking has improved.}
{因为击败了抵御者，所以你们的城市排名得以提升。}
{Regarding your reward, it will emerge during the end-of-year city ranking assessment. By then, strive to pass it.}
{关于你的奖励，会在年底的城市排名考核中出现。届时，努力去通过它吧。}
“Shouldn’t the reward be given to me now? Why does it depend on another event to be obtained?”
“奖励不应该是现在得到吗，还要靠别的事件来获得？”
{The Summon Card itself is the reward. Since you didn’t gain its benefits, the reward at the end of the year is an additional repayment from me. It must reach you through a proper reason.}
{召唤名片本身就是奖励，因你未因此获利，所以年底那份奖励，是我额外给予你的回报。它必须有正当理由到达你的手中。}
I guess I really should thank Councilor No. 41 for this.
那还真得感谢这41号议员了。
“So, what exactly is my additional reward?”
“那关于我的额外奖励是什么呢？”
Yang Zicang asked a question to break the silence—he felt he had many questions he wanted to ask but couldn’t recall any of them at the moment, so he just tried to stall for time.
杨子藏没话找话的道，他感觉自己还有很多问题想问，却一时又一个都想不起来，只得拖延时间。
{An ordinary person’s memoir.}
{一个普通人的回忆录。}
The Councilor’s gaze faded away.
议员的注视消失。
The exact same message suddenly appeared in the minds of every Silberherz prototype person throughout the city:
整座城市的所有银白模型的人内心同时出现道信息：
[The Defender has been eliminated. Eliminators: Chosen One Yang Zicang, Blazing Light Zhao Anlong. Each party member receives 300N of Void Zero Chronos.]
[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。]
[I have obtained 300N of Void Zero Chronos. Duration extends until the end of this month.]
[我已获得虚零时序300N，持续时间至本月末。]
Yang Zicang felt this newly acquired additional 300 Chronos that he could not control.
杨子藏感受着这新得到的，无法支配的额外三百年时序。
……
……
The night wind howled, and Yang Zicang stood on the now-sparser ground, turning his head to take in the scene of devastation.
夜风浩荡，杨子藏站在空旷许多的地面扭头望去，一片破败。
Fortunately, although everyone looked disheveled, the energy diffusion from the Defenders brought little chronology with it. After shedding decades in the initial shockwave, over 90% of the people survived.
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，这些人们在第一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。
“So… it’s been dealt with.”
“居然…解决了。”
Whispering this among themselves, they looked at Yang Zicang with eyes full of complex emotions.
小声嘀咕的他们，看向杨子藏的目光中充满着复杂的情绪。
Some envied him, others feared him, and still others wondered whether this kid had gained yet another reward.
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。
In the churning mud, Huang Xu crawled out, listlessly staring at the fine layer of dust half-covering him, his mind unconsciously wondering—Was that guy even human?! Where did he come from?
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，脑中下意识的想着——刚才那个家伙还算是人吗——他哪来的？
Catching the gaze of Yang Zicang only a few dozen meters away, Huang Xu jerked his head back as if waking from a nightmare, shaking the dirt and debris from his face, and said nothing.
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，一句话也没有说。
For his part, his bus-like “child” monster never showed itself again.
他的大巴车“孩子”从始至终都未再出现。
“Where’s your monster?” Yang Zicang approached.
“你的怪物呢。”杨子藏走过来。
“Go ahead, kill me.”
“杀了我吧。”
“Oh? You don’t seem as crazed anymore.”
“喔？看上去你并不怎么疯狂了。”
“Ha. Monsters affect people’s mood. I won’t argue my case. Do it now; I still have a few centuries to offer you.”
“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你。”
Huang Xu closed his eyes.
黄旭闭上了自己的双眼。
A faint breeze swept across his face. He reopened his eyes only to find that the young man—who had gotten off the same vehicle—had already moved away and was nowhere in sight.
微风扫荡在脸上，他重新睁开眼，发现这个同一辆车上下来的青年已经远去。
Huang Xu felt the model on his chest; the connection with the bus monster inside had become extremely faint. It was as if the other party had completely given up on him.
黄旭感受了下胸前模型，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。
“Monster…”
“恶魇…”
He muttered this word to himself, then suddenly broke down crying: “Huang Xu, what have you done… Why did it come to this…”
他低声念叨了句这个词，忽地自己垂泪哭了起来：“黄旭，你到底做了什么…为什么会…”
Yang Zicang climbed back to the surface, where teams of people were spontaneously searching through the ruins for those buried.
杨子藏翻上地面，一队队的人在自发从废墟中收寻被掩埋的人。
Although everyone had time sequences that could offset impact damage, without adequate food and water, the sequences would be continuously consumed when they reached their limit, eventually leading to death in agony.
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。
Moli, who had been keeping an eye on this situation, was deeply shaken.
一直关注着这边情况的莫里深受震撼。
{He’s so powerful. Can something this formidable even be considered human?}
{他好强大啊，这么厉害的存在还算是人类吗。}
At the same time, Moli also learned from some information that the missing people had actually gone to another place.
同时他也知道些信息，原来消失的人都去往了另一个地方。
“Who knows. Maybe humans are inherently capable of being that strong.”
“谁知道，人类或许本就可以那么强吧。”
Yang Zicang expressed his sincere gratitude.
杨子藏真心的感谢道。
“In any case, we owe it all to you this time. If there’s a chance in the future, I will repay you.”
“无论怎么说，这次都多亏你了，以后若是有机会，我会回报你的。”
{Sigh… Mr. Zicang, if you genuinely want to repay us, you should find a way for us to join you. But too bad we’re in different cities. Even if we form a team, we can’t get into your city.}
{唉，子藏先生，若真想回报我们，就想办法让我们跟着你混吧，可惜我们在不同的城市，只是组成队伍也没法进入你的城市中呢。}
Yang Zicang looked around and chuckled: “Although we’re not in the same city, we still did a pretty good job this time, didn’t we?”
杨子藏的头望了望，他笑道：“虽然我们没在一个城市，这次不也干得很不错吗。”
{It was perfect!}
{是完美！}
A young boy’s voice said in somewhat broken Mandarin.
一个男孩声音用比较蹩脚的中文道。
“You must be Boppoli?”
“你就是波波利？”
{It’s Nuance Bob Polo! But sure, you can call me Boppoli, no big deal, hahaha.}
{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。}
“Thank you, Boppoli, and thank you all. I need to contact someone else, so I’ll disconnect for now.”
“谢谢你，波波利，谢谢你们，我这边要跟别人做下联系，所以我暂时先断掉。”
He was single-handedly fighting against the entire timeline of the Xiongying Group, an astronomical number of timelines. Without Moli, he would never have succeeded.
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。
……
……
The nearby people who saw Yang Zicang didn’t know whether to leave or come over to greet him. After all, at least half of those still in the vicinity were the ones who had once tried to persuade him to back down.
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，至少一半都是曾来劝说他放手之人。
But to everyone’s surprise, he managed to secure 300 years of virtual zero timeline for every single Silver Model person, and even those newcomers who hadn’t yet obtained their models were included.
谁知他竟然为银白模型之人每人都争取道了三百年虚零时序，连那些还未获得模型的新人也有份。
No one would die this month from timeline deduction!
这个月不会有人因为扣除时序而死了！
“Zi, Zicang, Great God,” these people fidgeted in place, unsure of what to say.
“子，子藏大神。”这些人有点不知说什么地在原地扭捏着。
“Hurry up and save people.”
“尽快救人吧。”
Yang Zicang left this sentence and headed toward where Liang Xi and the others had been before. But just as the connection was broken, several disjointed lines flashed toward him.
杨子藏撂下这句话就往梁喜一行人之前的位置而去。但刚断掉链接，就有数道折线闪来。
They had actually been trying to contact him all along.
它们实际上一直都在试图与自己联系。
Sensing the “statements of investment” they contained, more than half were requests for him to help.
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。
Yang Zicang randomly connected with one of them.
杨子藏随机与一人链接。
{Great, finally got through. Zicang, Great God, please hurry and help us save the people at headquarters!}
{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！}