第一百五十三章 夺石 -1
Luo Bin picked up a hoe from the side and said, “I’ll go too.”
洛宾从一旁拿起根锄头道：“我也去吧。”
“And me, I’ve already memorized the map,” Zuo Feixian added, stepping forward.
“还有我，那地图我已经背熟了。”左非闲也往前一步。
Little Liu also came over and said, “I’ll go too. Since it’s a stone, I can pitch in and help carry it.”
小刘也走过来说道：“我也去吧，毕竟是石头，我可以搭把手抗。”
There were actually dozens of puppets on the train, but Yang Zicang didn’t stop these three. After all, those mindless things always fumbled about clumsily.
车上实际有着数十傀儡，不过杨子藏没有阻止这三位，毕竟那些已经没有意识的家伙做事毛手毛脚的。
“Okay, you guys get on. The others take Lyu Zhi and leave first.”
“行，你们上来吧。其他人带着吕志先离开。”
The four stepped onto the train.
四人踏上列车。
[Dispatch!]
[调度！]
The train shot far away in an instant, already hundreds of meters out before it could even finish turning invisible. However, its speed quickly slowed down as it moved further and further away from Xingmiao.
列车瞬息间冲出老远，还未隐形成功便已经在数百米开外。不过这速度在很快变慢，因为它离星渺越来越远。
“Young Ma Chao’s speed has skyrocketed.”
“小马超速度暴涨啊。”
Luo Bin looked at the rapidly receding scenery outside the window: “Where’s the first stop?”
洛宾看着窗外极速后退的风景：“第一站是哪里。”
Zuo Feixian and Yang Zicang exchanged a knowing smile.
左非闲和杨子藏相视一笑。
“Naturally, it’s our old friend, Mr. Ning Yang.”
“自然是我们的老朋友，宁洋先生。”
In the small shack compound standing on the wasteland, scattered lights slowly flickered on.
矗立在荒原上的小棚区中，星星点点的灯火逐渐亮起。
“It was broad daylight, how did it suddenly get dark?”
“好好的白天，怎么突然就黑了。”
“Boss, it couldn’t be monsters, could it?”
“棚主，不会是有妖怪吧。”
Ning Yang rolled his eyes at the newcomer beside him. Just as he carefully lit the torch in his hand and began to dispel the surrounding darkness, a sudden burst of strong wind accompanied by a roar came crashing down.
宁洋白了身旁新来的人一眼，正当他小心翼翼地点亮了手中的火把，将周遭黑暗驱散之时，一阵突如其来的强劲风声伴随着轰鸣而来。
Beside him, the man in the brown leather jacket flinched in fear, grabbing Ning Yang’s arm tightly.
他身旁，身穿棕色皮夹克的男子顿时心惊缩头，一把抓紧了宁洋的手臂。
“Boss, there really are monsters!”
“棚主，真有妖怪！”
“This wind…”
“这风声…”
Ning Yang’s voice carried a hint of surprise and confusion, “Huh? Could Yang Zicang be here again?”
宁洋的声音中带着一丝惊喜和疑惑，“咦？难道杨子藏又来了？”
The wind was as loud as the breathing of an ancient giant beast, abruptly breaking the silence of the wilderness.
这风声大得如同远古巨兽的喘息，猛然间打破了荒野的寂静。
“Why is it so loud this time?”
“这次的声音怎么这么响。”
Before his words had finished, the sharp gust of wind had already appeared behind his crude stone house.
话语未落，那道劲风声已在他简陋石屋的后方出现。
Ning Yang was about to go around back to say hello when suddenly a folded note shot over.
宁洋正想去后方打招呼，忽地一道折线射来。
{Lao Ning, lend me that stone of yours for a while.}
{老宁，这块石头借我一用。}
Ning Yang, who was hurrying over with a torch, suddenly changed expression.
举着火把快步跑过去的宁洋脸色一变。
He saw that Luo Bin and Zuo Feixian were already working in perfect unison—one wielding a pickaxe, the other bracing a pry bar—as they jointly pried up the stone slab that Ning Yang had cherished, tearing it from the firm, dry ground.
只见洛宾与左非闲两人已默契十足的动手，一人扬起锄头一人顶着撬杆，正合力将那块被宁洋视为珍宝的条石，从稳固的干硬地面猛然掀起。
With a rumbling crash, the stone hit the ground, sending dust flying.
轰隆一声，石头应声倒地，尘土飞扬。
“Hey! What do you two think you’re doing?”
“喂！你们这是在做什么？
“I’ll explain later,” Luo Bin replied curtly.
“后面跟你解释。”洛宾简短的回答道。
At the same time, Yang Zicang on the cart had already deftly taken possession of this “hijacked” stone, and in a flash, both men softly pressed their palms against the ground and vaulted onto the train.
与此同时，车上的杨子藏已经敏捷地接过了这块被“劫持”的石头，左非闲两人身形一闪，轻巧地撑掌跃上了列车。
Accompanied by a low, powerful roar, the train, like a giant beast awakening, broke through the constraints of space in a sudden surge, plunged into the vast night, and vanished into an afterimage without lingering for a single second.
伴随着一阵低沉且充满力量的轰鸣，列车仿佛头觉醒的巨兽，猛然间撞破了空间的束缚，一头扎进了茫茫夜色之中，一秒也不愿多留地化为虚影消散。
The torchlight flickered across Ning Yang’s face; initially stunned, he eventually shook his head with a complex expression.
火把的光影在宁洋脸上跳跃，他一脸的愕然后，面色复杂的摇摇头。
“I knew it—sigh—those thirty thousand temporal scores weren’t going to be easy to split.”
“我就晓得，唉，这三万时序分得没那么容易。”
……
The sudden descent of darkness struck fear into the hearts of all who lived on and depended upon this land, much like an overturning of day and night.
突然降临的黑暗让所有生存于、依赖于这片大地之人的心亦如这翻转的昼夜，陷入黑暗恐慌之中。
Earth, daylight, darkness—the cycle of cold and heat; for millions of eons, day after day and night after night had never changed, forming a deep-rooted belief in everyone’s mind.
大地，昼夜，寒暑往来，古往亿万岁月载，日日夜夜从未有过变更，是根深植入所有人内心的认知。
The world had simply always been this way.
天地本就如此。
Even in this desolate land, where the climate is harsh and the earth barren, the fundamental rule of day and night should not be altered.
哪怕在这荒芜的地方，气候萧条，大地荒芜，但根本上的昼夜规则不应改变。
Now, people finally realize this is merely their own wishful thinking.
现在人们终于晓得这只是自己的一厢情愿。
“Light the torches, all men come out. Prepare yourselves for the Time Sequence, just in case powerful monsters emerge.”
“点燃火把，男子汉们都给我出来，大家准备好时序，万一有强大魔物出现。”
“Could there really be monsters?”
“真可能有魔物吗？”
“Haven’t monsters appeared already? Isn’t even our lifespan being used as a weapon? What else in this world is impossible?”
“怪物不是早就出现了吗，连我们的寿命都拿来当武器了，还有什么不可能发生的。”
“Perhaps… using lifespan as a weapon is the mercy of the deities of this world upon us.”
“拿寿命做武器，或许…就是这个世界神灵对我们的仁慈。”
In this shed area, people whispered to themselves; even though it was what others called a large shelter gathering, at this moment, the people here remained engulfed in panic.
这处棚区中，人们喃喃自语，哪怕这里是其他人口中的大型作棚聚集地，可此时这里的人依旧恐慌万分。
This land has no government, no nation, no military—only the iron bars in their hands and their lives.
这片大地没有政权，没有国家，没有军队，有的只有自己手中的铁棍和生命。
A tall, upright figure stood at the center of the compacted dirt plaza, surrounded by shed dwellers holding torches.
一道笔挺的身影站在夯实的土广场正中央，周围围绕着举着火把的棚区民众。
Beside this upright figure gazing at the sky, one person spoke:
这道仰天凝视的笔挺身影旁，一人道：
“This is truly a cataclysmic upheaval, isn’t it?”
“天翻地覆不外乎于此吧。”
The man in the gray-white Zhongshan suit abruptly turned his head, his expression exuding authority without showing anger.
身穿灰白中山装的男人猛然转头，面容不怒自威。
“Do not disturb the people’s morale. Death is nothing but the end; demons and monsters are also transformed from humans. What is there to fear?”
“不要扰动民心，无外乎身死而已，妖魔鬼怪也是我人类所变，何足为惧。”
“Understood, Master Shed All,” this person said with a look of shame, “Sorry, I spoke out of turn.”
“是，孙棚主，”这人面露愧色，“对不起，我说错话了。”
Sun Daoru turned around, a red circular symbol emerging on his chest, and a quadrilateral blossomed outward.
孙道孺转过身，胸前红色圆形光芒浮现，一道四边形扩散而出。
“To even hold a sliver of ground in this world is fraught with peril, but precisely because of that, we have nothing left to lose.”
“能在这世界存下片瓦之地已是艰险重重，但正因如此，我们也没什么好失去的。”
This red quadrilateral swept through the bodies of dozens nearby.
这道红色四边形划过附近数十人身躯。
Each of them felt a faint ripple coat themselves, the ripple constantly emitting subtle sound waves—like a low, murmuring, chaotic whisper.
他们都觉得自己身上多了一层淡淡的波纹，波纹不断散发着细微声浪，犹如不断低吟的吵杂细语。
“With Chief Shed Sun here, we should be fine.”
“有孙棚主在，应该没事。”
Amid the hushed murmurs, the crowd suddenly heard a wind rushing in from afar.
众人窃窃私语中，忽地听到自远方冲来的风声。
[Woo——]
[呜——]
“It’s coming!”
“来了！”
“There really is a monster!”
“真有怪物！”
A commotion stirred within the shed district.
棚区内一阵骚乱。
“Prepare for battle!”
“准备战斗！”
Boom! A blast of wind slammed through the air as a phantom-like, rusty-yellow subway car emerged from the darkness, hurtling swiftly toward a critical facility deep within the shed district.
轰！劲风自空气中撞出，一道虚幻般的赤黄地铁从黑暗中显现，快速冲向棚区深处的一处重地。
“It’s a psionic-type nightmare!”
“是念力型恶魇！”
Lines flickered and expanded outward.
线条闪烁扩散而来。
{We’re the Great Jia Charter Freight Team, borrowing your divine stone to cope with the celestial upheaval.}
{我们是大甲方货队，借你们的神石一用，以应对天变。}
Hearing they intended to seize the rock treasure from their shed district, the crowd was shocked, yet they could no longer stop it. The train pierced straight through the cluster of buildings, crashing into a structure hundreds of meters behind without sparing a glance for the vigilant crowd.
听到要拿自己棚区的岩石宝物，众人大惊，可他们想阻止已经办不到了。列车已从建筑群中直接穿透而过，撞向后方数百米外的建筑，对众人的严正以待视若无物。
Chief Shed Sun pondered briefly before recalling this name he had heard of some time ago.
孙棚主略一思索就想起了这个前段时间听过的名字。
“The Great Jia?”
“大甲方？”
This charter freight team had suddenly risen to fame, with rumors even claiming their captain alone had wiped out the Wasteland Wagon Freight Team with just a few men, and had recently pulled off something particularly noteworthy in a distant place.
这筑货队突然间声名鹊起，甚至传言其队长就是仅靠几人灭掉荒车大货队之人，而且最近似乎还在远方某地做出了特别的事迹。
Sun Daoru roared in anger, “Is it really you? What do you mean by stealing our shelter’s sacred stone?”
孙道孺怒道：“真是你们？抢我们棚区的神石是何意？”
As his furious shout swept out in a red sonic wave, it surged forward dominantly. Countless solid soundwaves materialized, like an army charging through the billowing noise toward the distant mobile storm.
红色声浪随着他的怒喝卷动，铺天盖地汹涌而去。无数实质化的声波浮现，仿佛千军万马在这声波浪潮之中，冲向远处移动的狂风。
{How awful it sounds.}
{好难听。}
Little Ma Chao, even faster, dashed toward the hall at the back.
小马超速度更快冲向最后方的大殿。
Inside the dark stone hall, rocks stood upright. As the train’s phantom image faded across the stone, Luo Bin and the other two had already jumped down. In a single second, he swing his pickaxe upward, while Zuo Feixian perfectly cooperated by wedging his staff under the rock’s crevice.
黑暗的石殿内岩石矗立，当列车的幻影从它身上浮现而过，洛宾三人已跳了下来，一秒时间他已扬起锄头，左非闲非常配合地一棍子抵入石缝下方。
Wham! A single strike with the pickaxe followed. Little Liu took a running start and slammed into the stone with an iron-mountain-lean posture. The half-man-tall rock toppled in an instant.
嘭！一锄头挖下，小刘一个助跑以铁山靠的姿态撞向岩石，这块半人高的石头瞬间倾倒。
“Stop!”
“住手！”
Outside, the group came rushing over in disarray—before they arrived, the soundwave had already appeared.
外面众人凌乱跑来，人未至，声波已然出现。
[Silent Night.]
[沉吟之夜。]
Shrouded in darkness, the effect of Silent Night proved even more potent. Of the hundreds rushing in, at least half seized up with terror.
在黑暗中，沉吟之夜效果更胜，外面冲来的上百人中至少一半齐齐惊恐起来。
Like emotional bombs triggered once and all, their internal doubts and panic—already wavering—intensified massively right away. Quite a few lost control on the spot.
他们心中本就有的狐疑、惊慌在此刻瞬间放大，仿佛一个个情绪炸弹，好些人当场失控。
Most disrupted were the visitors who hadn’t yet been integrated by Shelter-chief Sun’s design model unification.
这些失控者大多是孙棚主的模型未覆盖之人。
At the train’s doorway, Yang Zicang was taken aback, surprised by such a strong effect. Looks like the Changed Atmosphere had inflicted a great panic upon people here.
车门口的杨子藏一愣，他都没想到效果这样强。看来天地换色对这里的人来造成了大恐慌。
“Everyone, don’t mistake our motive—we come not to plunder, but to use this object to defend against the looming crisis.”
“诸位别慌，我们不是抢，而是要靠这东西来抵御危机。”
As he spoke, the three men were already carrying the rock and passing it to Yang Zicang.
说罢，三人已经扛着岩石递向了杨子藏。
“I told you to stop. Big ‘Client,’ do you want to become enemies with our Ding Shi Great Shed?!”
“我让你们住手，大甲方，你是要跟我们鼎石大棚成为敌人？！”
Several figures exuding a chilling aura stepped out from outside; these were the pillars that enabled the Ding Shi Great Shed to exist.
外面走出几道散发森然气息的身影，这些都是鼎石大棚能够存在的砥石。
The burly man took a long spear from the person beside him, his silver-white Model on his chest flickering as Sequence infused into it.
那魁梧汉子从身旁之人手上接过杆长枪，他胸前银白模型闪动，时序注入其中。
“Are you Sequence Room Jia? I heard you can control trajectories. Try to take this spear thrust from me. Hyah!”
“你就是甲子间？听闻你可以控制轨迹，来吃我一枪试试。喝啊！”
Bang! The spear shadow instantly burst into countless phantom images shooting out, with no way to tell which was real and which was fake.
轰！枪影瞬息爆裂为无数幻影射出，不知哪个是真哪个是假。
The three men, who had just lifted the boulder and were climbing into the vehicle one meter off the ground, were immediately enveloped by these spear shadows.
刚抬上大石，正在往离地一米的车上爬的三人，顿时被这些枪影所笼罩。
“I don’t have time for your nonsense.”
“没空跟你废话。”
Yang Zicang raised his hand, and in everyone’s eyes, a strange black shadow resembling a small black hole abruptly appeared directly in front of the spear shadows.
杨子藏手一抬，众人眼中，一道小黑洞形状的不明黑影徒然出现在枪影正前方。
Ding!
叮！
Spear tip against spear tip!
枪尖对枪尖！
A silver-white long spear shot straight out from the black hole, accurately stabbing into the oncoming spear shadow. The immense force parried it, sending it flying with a thud back to the ground before the man’s feet.
黑洞中直射而出的银白长枪稳稳刺中射来的枪影，巨大的力道将其挑飞，嘭地声插在那人身前脚下的地面。
The base of the spear emitted a humming tremor.
枪尾发出嗡嗡颤音。
“How is that possible!”
“怎么可能！”
The man was shocked. He had already elevated his Seat to 99, and that single thrust had generated dozens of phantom images.
这人大惊，自己已经将格位提升至了99，刚才一枪射出就出现了几十道幻影。
As long as the main entity was unharmed, the spear shadows would not dissipate. But the opponent had instantly found the location of his main projected entity!
只要主体不坏，这些枪影就不会消散，可对方只是刹那间就找到了自己射出的主体所在！
Yang Zicang inwardly breathed a sigh of relief, grateful that he had activated Silent Night at the first moment. All surrounding objects now gave him information feedback, making it effortless to find people or things.
杨子藏也心中暗自庆幸，还好第一时间用出了沉吟之夜，周围所有物体都能跟自己拥有信息反馈，找人找物更是不在话下。
“Shed Master, this person is no ordinary. Let’s all attack together.”
“棚主，这人不简单，大家一起上。”
Models flickered before the group, when suddenly a shout came from behind: “Stop, don’t attack him!”
几人身前模型闪动，忽地后方一道喊声传来：“不要，不要攻击他！”
The newly arrived Shed Master Sun turned his head. The one shouting was from his shed district—the very person favored by the divine rock, the only one who could occasionally communicate with it.
刚赶来的孙棚主转头望去，呼喊之人是自己棚区那位得到神物岩石所青睐之人，唯有他能偶尔跟这岩石沟通。
He had forged for the shed district what must have been hundreds, if not thousands, of “Lost Memory Engines,” earning him immense credit.
他为棚区制作了已经不知是几百还是上千的失念引擎，功劳巨大。
“Why not?” Sun Daoru asked sternly.
“为什么。”孙道孺严肃的道。
The newcomer, panting heavily, supporting himself with both hands on his knees, gasped: “The Divine Stone… it told me… it is about to leave. These people are the ones it invited to take it away.”
来人气喘吁吁地拿双手抵着膝盖：“神石，告诉我，它要离开了。这些人，是它请来接它走的。”
At those words, the panicked crowd felt their inner turmoil instantly dissipate. They looked toward the four figures on the train, some crouching, some standing.
一句话出口，前方恐慌的众人瞬间觉得心中惊慌消散，他们看向列车上的四道或蹲或立的身影。
It was because Yang Zicang had retracted his technique.
是杨子藏收回了秘技。
They exchanged bewildered glances.
他们面面相觑。
“It… chooses to leave,” muttered Shed Master Sun, before shifting his gaze from the rock to the young man on the train. “Is that true?”
“它选择离开。”孙棚主呢喃了句，看向岩石，又看向列车上的青年人，“真的？”
Yang Zicang, who had already deactivated Silent Night, nodded to the crowd.
已经收回沉吟之夜的杨子藏冲着众人点点头。
The train plunged into the wind.
列车进入风中。
More and more people rushed over, watching the gust of wind pass through the stone hall and quickly vanish into the darkness of the night.
越来越多赶来的人看着那道风穿过石殿，快速消散在黑夜中。
{Next stop…}
{下一站…}
“Haotian Big Shed.”
“昊天大棚。”
Vroom—the train sped across the land like a phantom, swift and silent.
嗖，列车犹如鬼影在大地上迅捷地疾驰。
Although it had not yet transformed into the ghostly Midnight Train, the train now possessed some of those traits with its two blocks of rock.
拥有两块岩石的它虽未变成鬼气森然的午夜列车，但已经有了几分这样的姿态。
Zuo Feixian gently touched the rock beside him, feeling as though he could perceive the subtle energy constantly emanating from the stone, energy that helped the train glide faster across the land.
左非闲拿手轻轻触摸着身旁的岩石，他感觉自己似乎能察觉到岩石不断散发出的某种能量，正在协助列车更快速地穿梭在大地上。
“Feixian, when did you first arrive in the Lost Frequency Land?” Little Liu asked idly.
“非闲，你是什么时候来的失频之地？”小刘闲着无事问道。
“Me? Hmm, I think it’s been two or three years. The past is like a dream—I barely remember it. Ha, don’t be surprised; I just don’t want to think about it.”
“我？嗯，好像有两三年了。往事如梦，我快记不清了，呵呵，不要惊讶，我只是不愿去想而已。”
Little Liu sighed too, as if reminded of his own experiences.
小刘也叹了口气，像是想到了自己的经历。
“It’s okay, I understand.”
“没事，我理解。”