第一百五十六章 夺石 -4
Inside the fast-moving carriage, two more small glowing orbs flew down. One of the orbs carried faint red light, a handsome and adorable little boy.
高速行使的车厢内，又有两个小光团飞下来，其中一个光团带着微弱的红光，是个帅气可爱的男孩子。
{This week, the fame has erupted in a big way. It’s boisterous.}
{这礼拜，名气，大爆发，热闹。}
{We’re running a bit short on helpers.}
{我们的人手有点不够了。}
As he spoke, the two little beings within the orbs of silver-gold and red-gold light pointed their fingers.
说罢，银金和红金两道光团内的小家伙的手指一点。
A faint shimmer of light flickered, and a merging halo appeared in their hands, forming a small force field about the size of an unfolded square scarf.
细微的光芒闪烁，手中出现道混合光圈，如同展开的方巾大小的小力场。
Within the field, semitransparent images of various mob brawls surfaced, and the outer sound wave force field trembled rhythmically like a sound spectrum, vibrating with the intensity of the noise within.
力场内浮现出一道道众人火拼的半透明画面，它的外围声浪力场如同音波频谱图般不断随着里面的声音大小抖动着。
—”Charge! He who gets the divine stone rules the world!”
——“杀啊，得神石者得天下！”
—”A treasure goes to the one of virtue! Surrender the divine object to Emperor Li’s Great Greenhouse, or else your greenhouse shall be annihilated!”
——“宝物有德者居之，还不向李皇大棚献上神物！否则灭棚！”
—”They say mastering the treasure can grant ancient secret techniques. Boss, should we really sell it to the Porter’s Greenhouse?”
——“据说掌控宝物可以得到远古秘技，棚主，咱们真的要卖给纤夫大棚？”
The people’s words, unsavvy but understandable, and their battles came through from the various images.
各个画面上传来大伙儿能听懂但不能理解的话语与征战。
Yang Zicang and the others were stunned: “What are they doing? Are they fighting over the divine stone too?”
杨子藏几人愕然：“他们这是干什么，也在争夺神石？”
{That’s right.}
{没错。}
The two little things nodded.
两个小东西点点头。
Yang Zicang broke out in a cold sweat.
杨子藏汗然。
In the carriage, Zuo Feixian and the others looked at other small screens. On one screen, someone was throwing a Divine Stone into a pot to boil, and a woman was murmuring incantations in front of the pot.
车厢内左非闲几人看向其它小画面，一个画面中有人正将神石丢进锅里煮着，一位女士在锅前念念有词。
In another screen, someone was transferring a Divine Stone, with many people behind them fighting.
另一个画面中，有人正在将神石转移，他们后方很多人在与人争斗。
In yet another shed area, a Divine Stone had sunk deep into a well, covered with stones by someone. The person by the well clapped their hands, bragging that the stones in the well would definitely not be found within sixty years.
还有个棚区，神石已经沉入水井深处，被人用石块给盖上，井边的人拍拍手，自夸甲子间肯定找不到井水内的石头。
“No way, the news spreads so fast.”
“不是吧，消息传得这么快。”
“It’s been almost four hours. On Earth, news would have spread all over the world. Though life here in the Lost Frequency Land is primitive, their communication isn’t slow.”
“快四个小时了，在地球消息都传遍全球了，这失频之地虽然生活原始，但大家的联络可不慢。”
“Sigh.” Yang Zicang scratched his hair, not expecting that his actions would trigger a riot in the Lost Frequency Land.
“嘶。”杨子藏扣了头发，没想到自己的动作居然引发了失频之地上的骚乱。
{Half-time break is over. We’re leaving now, Yang Yang, the big-name celebrity.}
{中场休息时间结束，我们先离开啦，杨杨大名人。}
The spirits inside three small light clusters, along with even smaller light clusters of other unseen spirits, whooshed through the carriage and flew toward the sky.
三个小光团内的精灵和其它未显现精灵的更小光团一起咻地穿过车厢飞向苍穹。
Yang Zicang looked at the scenery ahead. The outlines of buildings on the horizon quickly emerged. That place ahead was another location, mentioned by Xingmiao, that housed powerful experts.
杨子藏看向前方的景色，地平线上的建筑轮廓快速浮现，前方那地儿是另一处由星渺提醒的拥有强大高手的地方。
This place was better than the Wuyou Shed Area; the group could even see from a distance the ring of walls standing on the barren land.
这是比无忧大棚建筑还好的地方，几人甚至已经能远远看到它矗立在荒原的那圈围墙。
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Inside Hub Town.
枢纽镇内。
The clatter of the brass typewriter never ceased, spewing out pages full of breaking news, already nearly half a meter long.
黄铜打字机咔咔声就没断过，满篇皆是突发新闻，已经吐了接近半米长。
But no one paid attention to the clatter except those crowded around the table, because the screen in front was broadcasting similar scenes.
但除了挤在桌边的人，没有人在意它，因为前方的荧幕上转播的全是类似的画面。
Zhu Yin sighed.
逐银叹了口气。
The man with the moustache and black round hat came to his side, smiled and said,
那带着黑色圆帽的八字胡也来到了他身边，他笑道：
“No one would have expected that Yang Zicang would stir up such a storm just over a month later. As the fuse, his name tonight will definitely make the top hundred, possibly even go down in history.”
“万没想到，仅仅一月余，杨子藏就能掀起如此风浪。作为导火索，他今夜名气肯定是过百，甚至可能名留千古。”
Zhu Yin gave him an irritated glance.
逐银没好气的看了他一眼。
“Worthless, already exposed early.”
“没屁用，早暴露了。”
“Hahahaha,”
“哈哈哈哈。”
the man patted Zhu Yin’s shoulder. “It’s fine, that business is tough to handle by normal means.”
这人拍了拍逐银肩膀，“没事，那件事难办是正常的。”
The few behind him staring at the screen muttered softly,
身后几人盯着荧幕低语道：
“Yang Zicang is about to reach Rose Creek.”
“杨子藏要到玫瑰溪了。”
“Rose Queen Xu Ayuan’s turf, the center point between the two hub towns. Supposedly she’s backed by the Crimson Hub and has treasures in hand. Any outsider her former deputy tried to eliminate before — never came out.”
“玫瑰女王徐爱媛的地盘，是两座枢纽镇中心点。据说她得到绯红枢纽镇的扶持，手上肯定有宝物，以前想要拔除它的上任副镇的手下进去全都没出来过。”
Upon hearing these words that insinuatingly pointed at him, Zhu Yin’s knuckles squeezed lightly.
听到众人隐隐指代自己的话，逐银的指节轻微捏了捏。
“Yang Zicang, you can afford to fail anywhere else, but not here.”, He murmured to himself under his breath.
“杨子藏，其它地方失手都可以，这里你千万别给我失手了。”他内心对着自己轻声地道。
Suddenly, several eyes shot up toward one screen, where spots appeared—the signal went dead.
忽地，几人抬头看向一个荧幕，那里的画面出现了斑点，信号断了。
……
……
Rose Creek was bustling beyond what a dead zone should allow, its shantytown-like settlement an oasis amid the wasteland .
玫瑰溪，繁华得不似失频之地该有的贫瘠，小镇般的棚区仿佛矗立于荒原上的绿洲。
Outside, there was even a moat surrounding the city, bubbling with poisonous gas. From what they had just pried, there seemed to be a monstrous water creature entombed inside guarding this place.
这里的城外甚至有条护城河，河中冒着毒气泡，根据刚才问到的消息，河中似乎有水中妖物守护这里。
As for the leader of this settlement, their skills were even more formidable. As long as she was there, no one recruited by the Silver Pivot Hub could break through this place.
至于这处聚集地里的棚主，手段更是厉害，有她在这里的一天，没有银白枢纽镇笼络的人能够突破这里。
Just as the ghost-like subway train approached the city’s edge, a quadrilateral silver-white polyline shot over.
鬼影般的地铁列车刚靠近城边，便有道四边形银白折线射来。
{YangZicang. What exactly do you want with the divine stone?}
{杨子藏。你们要神石到底有何用。}
This territory, clearly belonging to those supported by the Crimson Pivot Hub, yet had people of such high model from the Silver White Ring serving it.
明明属于绯红枢纽镇扶持之人的地盘，却有这样高模型的银白之环的人为其卖命。
“We were entrusted by the divine stone to come and retrieve it.”
“我们受神石所托，要来将其寻回。”
{This transformation from day to night is its creation! Do you know what you’re doing? This could trigger a great disaster in the Lost Frequency Land.}
{这白昼变黑夜就是它的杰作吧！你知不知道你在做什么，这可能让失频之地引发大灾难。}
“The Lost Frequency Land has already fallen into disaster. If the divine stone cannot be retrieved, I’m afraid this land will become a claimed territory from now on.”
“失频之地已经陷入灾难，若神石无法寻回，恐怕以后这失频之地就要属于有主之地了。”
After half a day of deliberation, YangZicang vaguely felt that since the editor-in-chief could intervene in the developments of the Lost Frequency Land, they might have already planned to change this place. Otherwise, Mr. Xiao wouldn’t act so recklessly, even daring to casually eliminate a team like theirs that had been renowned for weeks.
经过半日的思考，杨子藏隐隐觉得既然主编能够介入失频之地的事态发展，那么这主编很可能已经做好了改变这里的预谋。否则霄先生不会那么肆无忌惮，连自己这种连续几个礼拜成为名人的团队也敢随意消灭。
Remember, according to the manual, the Lost Illusion Company should not appear in the Lost Frequency Land except for hiring employees, because they hold a vast amount of information about the past.
要知道，手册上的信息是，遗失幻境公司除了录取雇员，不能出现在失频之地，因为他们掌握着大量关于过去的信息。
The other side was silent for a while. To avoid unnecessary conflict, the train also paused briefly outside the city.
对面沉默了些许时候，为了避免不必要的争斗，列车也在城外停顿了一小会儿。
“Leave now, Yang Zicang. Our city lord has said that the Divine Stones cannot be given away casually. Especially when the future is unpredictable, no rash decisions can be made. She cannot bear the risk of bringing destruction to the Lost Frequency Land.”
{离开吧，杨子藏。我们城主说了，神石不能随意给人。特别是未来无法预测的时候，不能随意做抉择，她担不起覆灭失频之地的风险。}
So she already calls herself the city lord now, Yang Zicang thought as he swept his gaze over the dark, modularized buildings. The master of this place does have the right to claim that title.
居然都自称城主了，杨子藏扫了这些已经模器化的暗沉建筑一眼，这里的主人倒也有这个资格。
“Then I apologize.”
“那就抱歉了。”
[Silent Night.]
[沉吟之夜。]
The mental wave spread rapidly.
精神波浪迅速扩散。
The train turned into a phantom and charged through the wall. Inside the city, it was empty and desolate, save for a grand hall in the distance, blazing with light.
列车化为幻影冲入围墙，城里面空荡荡的，唯有远方一处典雅大殿灯火通明。
Suddenly, a faint fragrance permeated the entire town.
忽然，一镇幽香弥漫城镇。
Yang Zicang felt his connection with all things severely disrupted. Things he could sense even with his eyes closed were now blurred, but he could still vaguely discern the location of the Divine Stones.
杨子藏感觉自己与万物的沟通顿时受到非常大的干扰，之前哪怕闭眼也能感知的物件此时变得模糊，但还是隐隐寻到了神石的所在。
Three of them!
竟然有三枚！
The train appeared at the entrance of the temple-like grand hall. It was undoubtedly a stable interdimensional building!
列车出现在宛若神殿般的大殿门口，它绝对是稳定的异界建筑！
Peering through the open archway, Yang Zicang saw a strikingly beautiful long-haired woman seated in the main throne, her posture exceptionally graceful.
杨子藏通过敞开的拱门往里看去，主位上坐着位身姿卓绝的长发明艳女士。
Inside the hall, two Divine Stones stood as if already in place, while the third was on the mount, seemingly just delivered from somewhere else.
大殿里，本就矗立着两枚神石，而第三块是在车上，像是刚从别处送来。
A circle of people stood near it, their chests shimmering with models in white, silver, pale red, or deep red. Within the hall, more beautiful women held weapons—some solemn, some smiling faintly—as they stared ahead.
一圈人站在它附近，他们胸口闪动着或白或银或淡红或深红的模型。在大殿中，更多美貌女子手持武器，或郑重或淡笑地盯着前方。
On the main seat, the woman lifted her arm gently and rested it on her full thigh.
主座上，女人轻轻抬起手臂放在丰盈大腿上。
“You’re the latest rising celebrity, and many in our town talk about you, and your… Ma Chao.”
“你是最近新晋名人，我们镇中也有许多人谈论起你，还有你的…马超。”
An aloof and resolute voice, cold as ice, rings out.
孤冷决绝宛若冰石的女声传来。
Luo Bin stares, his eyes glued to the sight.
洛宾看得眼睛都直了。
The Rose Queen is clad in an elegant robe, whose patterns shimmer like the brightest stars in the night sky, emitting a deep-glow radiance. Her robe is skillfully tailored, accentuating her slender figure while also exuding an air of inviolable dignity.
玫瑰女王身着一袭雅致长袍，袍身上的纹饰宛如夜空中最亮的星辰，闪烁着幽邃的光芒。她的袍子剪裁精巧，既凸显了修长的身形，又有几分不容侵犯的尊贵气质。
On her face, the eye makeup traced at the corners of her eyes makes Luo Bin’s heart race, and coupled with the subtle fragrance pervading the surroundings, he feels as though he sees the most beautiful and solitary flower in a garden.
在她脸上，眼角勾勒的眼妆让洛宾心跳加快，配合着弥漫各处的淡淡幽香，他仿佛看到了花园里最美最孤艳的那朵鲜花。
“Is she Xu Aiyuan?”
“她就是徐爱媛？”
Luo Bin’s throat moves slightly; he feels as if he has fallen into a river.
洛宾的喉头动了动，他感觉自己坠入了一条河里。
“Yang Zicang, leave now. I hope next time you come, it’s as a guest.”
“杨子藏，离开吧，希望下次你来的时候，是以客人的身份。”
“I must take them away, sorry.”
“我必须带走它们，抱歉。”
White Shadow Thought-Dragon suddenly leaps forth, charging toward the top two figures.
白影念龙忽地腾出，冲向最前方两位。
They are clad in mythical gear, wielding weapons emitting red light, with grave expressions on their faces.
他们穿着模器装备，手持冒着红光的武器，脸上露出郑重的神色。
The next moment, Yang Zicang feels as if the entire hall begins to spin, like a blooming flower; his control over the target grows weaker as the opponent envelops the entire hall with their psychic field.
下一瞬间，杨子藏仿佛觉得整个大殿都开始旋转起来，如同一朵盛开的鲜花，自己对目标的掌控力更为减弱，对方用念力场笼罩了整个大殿。
The Thought-Dragon darts rapidly at this circle of people, aiming to bite into the psychic construct of one.
念龙嗖地窜向这一圈人，一口就要将一人的念力体咬出。
[Stand back!]
[退下！]
The Rose Queen glared and roared, her energy surging and coalescing into a rose beneath this person, enveloping him whole, so that the ensnared psychic body struggled to be pulled free.
玫瑰女王怒目喝到，能量汹涌聚散成一朵玫瑰出现在这人身下，将它一下囊括而入，被咬合住的念力体顿时难以拔出体外。
“Sin Slash!” A figure among the crowd stepped forward.
“邪念斩！”人群中一人踏步而出。
With a single slash, the blade light suddenly soared to three meters in length, slashing toward the spirit dragon’s body with intricate ripples.
一刀砍下，刀光忽地拔高至三米长，带着繁复波纹的斩向念龙身躯。
[I neutralized 15070N!]
[我抵消了15070N！]
The spirit dragon instantly abandoned its bite, soared upward, and glared angrily at this towering figure.
念龙瞬间放弃撕咬，腾向高处怒视这道高大身影。
The lean tall man twirled his sword into a flourish: “Finally, I’ve met a worthy opponent. Since I mastered Sin Slash, I’ve been unmatched for too long—except for the Queen, there has been no one who could even last a single round.”
那瘦高男人将刀挽出个刀花：“终于遇到能与之一战的对手了，自从学会邪念斩以来，我已无敌太久，除了女王，根本没有一合之将。”
Bang! A silver spear suddenly appeared behind him. The man, as if anticipating this, turned and struck out with his blade, but the black greatsword that should have hit the spear brushed past it instead.
砰！银色长枪突然出现在他背后，这人似早有预料转身一刀就劈砍过去，原本能砍中长枪的黑色大刀却与之擦过。
“It’s an orbit-changing ability!”
“是变轨能力！”
Boom! Rocks on the ground exploded. The man leaped up, immediately twisted and bent low with his sword held horizontally, dodging the spear that shot horizontally through the air again.
轰！地上岩石爆炸，这男人身体一跃后立马扭身弯腰横刀，让过再次从空气中横向疾射而出的长枪。
The spear curved mid-flight and flew toward him.
长枪拐个弯射来。
“Charge!”
“你们上！”
The Rose Queen spoke with overwhelming authority.
玫瑰女王威势极盛地道。
A dozen figures emitting crimson flames rushed toward YangZicang and his companions by the door.
十来道散发红焰的身影冲向门外的杨子藏几人。
This group moved in swift succession like a running streetcar; difficult for the train to swallow, and not daring to do so either, it began to circle around the hall.
这些人时序很多，列车难以吞入也不敢吞入，绕着大殿兜起圈子。
White Shadow Thought-Dragon was biting and tearing inside, distracting Rose Queen and draining her mental energy, while Yang Zicang focused on sensing the man’s movements through the weakened Silent Night, using the silver spear to pin him down and prevent him from attacking the Thought-Dragon.
白影念龙则在里面四处撕咬，干扰着玫瑰女王的注意力，消耗着她的精神能量，而杨子藏则专注通过被削弱的沉吟之夜感知着那男人的动作，不断用银色长枪牵制对方，令其无法攻击到念龙。
The two sides fell into a stalemate.
双方陷入僵持。
The hub towns of both factions were watching intently, probing each other’s capabilities.
两边的枢纽镇都专注的盯着这里，互相了解着对方的底细。
“So this is Rose Queen, quite a sight for sore eyes.”
“这就是玫瑰女王，真是养眼。”
“Her looks aside, she even managed to run an entire greenhouse district. Even if she sided with Crimson, I still admire her.”
“外貌也就罢了，还能经营一座大棚区，哪怕她倾向绯红我也还是佩服她的。”
“Indeed, she provided a safe haven for countless women in the Displacement Realm. Without her, many girls would have had bitter fates. But Yang Zicang is also quite formidable—alone, he’s tying down so many experts here.”
“是啊，她为失频之地上的许多女子提供了庇护之所。没有她，多少姑娘会命运凄苦。不过杨子藏也真是厉害，一个人就牵制了这里那么多的高手。”
In the scene, a group of people followed the train in circles.
画面中，一群人跟着列车兜圈子。
The Red Model warriors of Rose Creek stood guard inside and outside the hall. Whenever the train came near, they repeatedly attacked with sonic-based models, which were abundant among those red model sculptures.
玫瑰溪的众红模型武士守在殿内外各处，只要列车过来，就不断用声波类模型攻击，这样的模型在红色模型雕塑那边并不缺少。
“That giant centipede wasn’t going all out.”
“那条大蜈蚣没有下死手。”
“Yeah, Yang Zicang’s spear was also restrained—unpredictable as it was, it didn’t carry much sequence.”
“嗯，杨子藏那杆枪也很克制，虽然神出鬼没，但附带时序都不多。”
Everyone could only tell both sides were executing their techniques on the edge of restraint and explosion, but You Yin understood that if they truly fought without reservations, the battle here would at least escalate into a sequence war of millions and beyond.
众人只知道双方都在克制与爆发的边缘施展各自的技术，逐银却是知道，若真不顾一切的打起来，这里至少能爆发百万级别以上的时序战争。
Suddenly, a dark red polyline shot toward Zhu Yin.
忽地，逐银身前一道折线射来，是暗红。