“Aha! You’ve become young again. Was that short guy really that weak? If I’d known, I would have taken care of him myself!”
“啊哈，你居然变年轻了，那矮子这么弱吗，早知道我就把它解决掉好了！”
It was Director Huang’s familiar voice coming from behind the bus.
是巴士后方所传来黄主任的熟悉嗓音。
“Oh ho! Your opponent is me, you beast!”
“哦咯，你的对手是我，畜生！”
A white, twisting ray of light shot over.
一道白色曲折光线射来。
[Bai Yuan (白鸳) wants to invest Time Sequence (时序) in me.]
[白鸳想要为我进行时序投资。]
It was Bai Yuan. Yang Zicang (杨子藏) looked back irritably — sure enough, it was that guy in the white trench coat.
是白鸳。杨子藏没好气地转头看了后方一眼，果然是那白色风衣的家伙。
There was never any thirty-percent choice at all. He had been lying from the start. Yang Zicang realized — it had been a test!
根本就没有百分之三十的选择权，他从头都在说谎，杨子藏反应过来，那是一种试探！
The four newcomers had immediately had their limits sized up by him back then.
作为新手的四人立马就被那时的他摸清了底细。
This guy had run away before, and now he was rushing back. At this moment, Yang Zicang could already see — the shape flickering on his body was a triangle.
这家伙之前逃跑，这会又赶了过来。此刻杨子藏已经看出来，他身上闪烁的是个三角形图形。
“Hey, kid who got strong — let’s take down this Red Model (红模型) guy together! Otherwise, if another Nightmare (恶魇) bus shows up, life’s going to get even harder for us.”
“喂，变强的小子，咱们一起消灭这红模型的家伙吧！不然对面再添一辆恶魇车，我们过得会更难受。”
“Get lost, liar. He’s mine!”
“滚开，骗子，他是我的！”
Yang Zicang’s voice was crazed. He then picked up a small stone from the ground, put all his strength into it, and threw it backward.
杨子藏嗓音疯狂的叫道，随即从地上拾起个石子，运足力道就往后丢去。
[3600N Time Sequence invested.]
[3600N时序投入。]
The tiny, ordinary stone instantly streaked through the air with a golden light.
小小的普通石子瞬间带着金色光芒划过空气。
Seeing Yang Zicang’s move — having already witnessed the destruction of the monster armor — the Nightmare bus quickly dove toward the ground in anticipation. The stone grazed its back as it passed, producing a deep, rumbling boom, blasting a huge gash across its back.
见到杨子藏这动作，先前已经看见怪物铠甲毁灭过程的恶魇巴士，早有准备地飞快遁向地面。石子擦着它的背脊划过，发出轰隆闷响，将它背部爆破出一道巨大鸿沟。
“Director Huang!”
“黄主任！”
Yang Zicang’s furious roar echoed through the tunnel.
杨子藏愤怒的喊声传遍隧道。
The monster let out a wail.
怪物传来哀鸣。
A pale golden-white light carrying 3115N flowed back.
一道淡金色白光携带着3115N流转了回来。
The ground there grew dark and, like a pool of grime, rushed to the side and vanished outside the tunnel wall.
那里的地面变得暗沉，并如一滩污迹般冲向旁边，隐入了通道墙壁之外。
It had escaped.
它逃走了。
Huang Xu (黄旭), hiding inside the train as it dove underground, broke out in a cold sweat.
随列车遁入地下的黄旭冷汗直冒。
He had fully woken up from his wild frenzy.
他已经彻底从狂放中清醒了。
He was not a god — he only had overwhelming advantage against ordinary people. That guy just now — he was the most terrifying existence at the moment. This world…?
自己不是神，只是面对普通人有压倒性优势罢了，刚才那个家伙，他才是当下最恐怖的存在！这个世界…？
“Ha. He ran away scared of us.” Bai Yuan’s handsome figure appeared behind them, laughing.
“哈，他被我们吓跑了。”白鸳帅气的身影出现在后方笑到。
There were some bloodstains on his clothes — it seemed he had dealt with some of the train-controlled people.
他衣服上带着些血迹，看来有部分被列车控制的人被他处理了。
Yang Zicang turned around, holding the armor in front of him, and glared fiercely at this man who looked impressive but had actually only just obtained his Model.
杨子藏转身，将盔甲挡在身前的森然看向这个看上去很厉害，实际上也只是刚获得模型的男人。
“Give us back our Time Sequence.”
“把时序还给我们。”
“What?” Bai Yuan dug at his ear, pretending not to understand.
“什么？”白鸳挖了挖耳朵，做出一副听不懂的样子。
“I said, give us back our Time Sequence. You cheated a young girl out of thirty years — have you forgotten? That was never an investment!”
“我说，把时序还给我们，你骗掉了一个女孩子的三十年，难道忘记了吗？那根本不是投资！”
The young man walked toward him. At this moment, he no longer feared these so-called “veterans” of this world.
青年往对面走去，此刻的自己根本不再惧怕这些所谓的这个世界的“老人”。
They were all scumbags who tried every trick to cheat others out of their lifespans.
他们都是一群想方设法欺骗别人寿命的烂人。
“Ah, that. Wasn’t that a gift you gave me? I protected you. That was the fee.”
“啊，你说那个啊。那不是你们对我的赠予吗？我保护了你们，这就是费用。”
“Fine. I’ll come collect it myself.”
“很好，我亲自来取。”
With a “Ha,” Yang Zicang’s fist once again burst into illusory flames.
哈了声的杨子藏拳头上再次冒出虚幻般的火焰。
A mocking smile appeared on Bai Yuan’s face.
白鸳浮现出嘲笑：
“You really don’t understand anything, do you? I’ve already joined the monster-hunting阵营 (zhèn yíng). Do you really want to strike a brother in the same阵营? You have no idea what the consequences will be…”
“你果然是什么都不懂的人，我可是加入了狩猎怪物的阵营，你要对同一个阵营的兄弟出手吗，你根本不知道后果是…”
Before he finished speaking, Yang Zicang, empowered by his Model, instantly became a running shadow.
话音未落，杨子藏在模型能力下瞬间化为一道奔跑的黑影。
The eyes beneath Bai Yuan’s hat brim didn’t even have time to turn before he saw a huge golden fist coming straight at his head.
白鸳帽檐下的眼睛甚至都还来不及转到旁边，便见到一个硕大的金色拳头朝着脑袋击来。
Why was it so fast?
速度为什么这么快。
A surge of tension rose in Bai Yuan’s heart. Suddenly, he heard the sound of an investment.
白鸳心间升起一股紧张感，忽的，他听到了投资的声音。
[An anonymous person wants to make an active investment in me.]
[匿名者想要为我进行主动投资。]
[I have received 400N.]
[我收获了400N。]
“Bam!”
“嘭！”
The punch sent Bai Yuan’s body flying, but he only hit the wall and rolled a few times on the ground.
这一拳将白鸳的身形打飞了出去，但是仅仅只是砸在墙上后又在地面滚动了几下。
[400N withdrawn.]
[400N撤资。]
He wasn’t dead.
自己没有死。
Only when the fist hit his face did Bai Yuan realize just how terrifying the strike he had just experienced was.
在拳头打在脸上的时候，白鸳才知道自己经历了怎样恐怖的一击。
Thank goodness he had gotten investment protection at the critical moment. Thank heavens — it seemed someone at headquarters had been watching this spot.
还好千钧一发之际获得了投资保护，谢天谢地，看来有总部的人恰好盯着这里。
Rolling on the ground, feeling the pain in his cheek, Bai Yuan thought fearfully — this newbie really didn’t understand anything! Since someone was investing for him, hadn’t anyone taught this bastard the most basic rules?!
在地上翻滚的白鸳感受着脸颊传来的疼痛，后怕的想到，这个新人真是什么都不懂啊！既然有人给他投资，没人教这混蛋最基本的规则吗！
Yang Zicang looked at his fist. The golden light on it had disappeared.
杨子藏看了眼自己的拳头，上面的金光消失了。
He thought about it, a little confused.
他有些疑惑的想了下。
One opponent had been killed, and the investment had yielded returns — so the investors had fully withdrawn their Time Sequence and taken their corresponding dividends.
对手已被击毙一人，投资得到回报，因此投资者们完整撤回了时序，并带走了对应红利。
With a thought, he understood that the remaining extra Time Sequence principal was about 505.4N, and the remaining unwithdrawn investment Time Sequence was 167.10N.
心念一动，便晓得当前剩余的额外时序本金约为505.4N，当前剩余未撤离投资时序，167.10N。
[All of this is my doing. The great Quadrilateral’s (四边形) credit.]
[这些全是我，伟大的四边形的功劳。]
All the numbers converged into the small ring on his chest — 673.2N.
数字全部汇聚到了胸前的小圆环内，673.2N。
“Oh ah! You actually dared to hit me.”
“哦啊，你尽然敢打我。”
Bai Yuan glanced at the hat that had flown off to the side. His expression shifted several times, and his voice deepened:
白鸳看了眼飞到了一边的帽子，他脸上数度变幻，嗓音深沉地道：
“The Mutant Hunter Alliance (猎怪者联盟) does not allow in-fighting among its own. I suggest you pay me a hundred years, and we’ll pretend this never happened. Otherwise, you will be punished! You will be stripped of all your extra Time Sequence and thrown in prison for three full months!”
“猎怪者阵营不会允许自己人的残杀，我劝你支付我一百年，这件事就当没有发生，否则，你会受到惩罚！你会被剥夺所有额外时序，并且关入大牢整整三个月！”
“So someone actually threatens others with their own life. What Mutant Hunter Alliance? Who organized it? It only says no in-fighting — nothing else?”
“居然有人用自己的命威胁别人。什么猎怪者阵营，谁组织的，他只说不准互相残杀，没有说其它的吗？”
Yang Zicang’s eyes were bloodshot as he walked over step by step. The number inside the ring on his chest decreased rapidly, and illusory flames reappeared in his hand.
杨子藏有些眼睛充满扩张血丝的一步步走过去，胸前圆环内的数字快速减少，手上重新出现虚焰。
Bai Yuan was stunned: “What do you mean?”
白鸳一愣：“你什么意思？”
“Since you’re so greedy — here, I’ll give you this armor. Do you want it?”
“你既然这么贪，这件盔甲送给你，要不要。”
Yang Zicang appeared beside him in two steps. His hand, shimmering with a golden phantom, pressed down on Bai Yuan’s neck. Under such suppression, the man whose internal organs were still in pain had no strength to resist.
杨子藏两步出现在他身边，蕴含金色虚影的手掌按住他的脖子，在这样的压制下，内脏还在疼痛的男人根本无力反抗。
The dark red, damaged armor was thrown onto him. Bai Yuan felt a cold, foul energy writhing out from within it, as if trying to enter his flesh and blood.
暗红的残破甲胄被丢到身上，白鸳感觉有一丝冰冷的晦气正在从中往外蠕动，像是要进入自己的血肉。
“What is this thing?! Ah, hasn’t this Nightmare died yet?! Take it away! Take it away!”
“这是什么东西？！啊，这恶魇还没死透吗！拿开，快拿开！”
He watched in terror as the armor seeped root-like dark red energy into his body — as if the monster was trying to revive itself through him.
他惊恐地看着铠甲渗出一道道如根须般的暗红能量往体内延伸，怪物似要借此活过来。
Suddenly, a ray of light refracted over. Yang Zicang perceived a wooden office interior, where sat a man shrouded in black mist.
忽地，一道光线折射而来，杨子藏感知到了一个木制办公室，其中坐着个浑身被黑雾笼罩的男人。
“It’s the Vice President (副会). Talk to him! We’re on the same side. I don’t want that hundred-year compensation anymore.”
“是副会，你快劝劝他，都是自己人。那一百年赔偿我不要了。”
Bai Yuan spoke into the empty space before him. Clearly, he had also been pulled into this mysterious person’s telepathic link.
白鸳在一旁对着眼前的虚空道。很显然，他也被这神秘人的心灵链接所拉了进来。
“On the same side? You cheated my friend out of more than thirty years of her life — what kind of ‘same side’ is that?”
“自己人？你骗走了我朋友三十多年寿命，算什么自己人。”
{Your mind is being influenced by your Model.}
{你被模型影响心智了。}
The man in the office advised in a deep voice:
办公室内那人沉声劝诫道：
{That’s just how this world is. Anyway, no in-fighting is allowed. Beyond that, everyone relies on their own abilities.}
{这个世界就是这样，反正，不允许互相残杀，其它各凭本事。}
Yang Zicang said: “Right now, I’m relying on my own abilities too. This armor — I think it’s great. Since this guy likes it so much, I’ll give it to him. I’m doing a good deed.”
杨子藏道：“我现在也是凭我自己的本事。这铠甲，我觉得很好，既然这家伙喜欢，我就送给他好了，我这是在做好事。”
The man frowned.
那人眉头皱紧。
{For the sake of your Model being the Quadrilateral, I will allow this one transgression.}
{看在你的模型是四边形的份上，我允许你这一次的越轨行为。}
Then, the perception scene vanished.
随后，感应画面消失。
Bai Yuan, waiting on the ground, stared with his mouth hanging open in disbelief. He stiffly turned his head to look at Yang Zicang, his voice trembling:
地上等待着的白鸳目瞪口呆的张着嘴。他僵硬转头看向杨子藏，声音颤抖：
“Brother, I’ll pay, I’ll give back the Time Sequence right now. Please take that thing off me.”
“哥，我还，我这就还时序，你快把那东西拿开。”
On the ground, Mu Xiaoyu (沐小雨), Zhang Yang (张扬), Liu Ming (刘明) — hiding in a corner of an alley — watched in shock as the man’s performance in the investment画面 (huà miàn).
地面上，藏在个巷道角落里的沐小雨三人吃惊地感受着投资画面中那个男人的表现。
“Too late.”
“晚了。”
A cold gleam flashed in Yang Zicang’s eyes.
杨子藏目光中暴起道寒芒。
“Ah! Murder!”
“啊！杀人啦！”
Feeling the golden phantom gathering on the fist, Bai Yuan cried out, then immediately changed his tune and shouted:
感受到拳头上聚集的金色虚影，白鸳哭又立即转变嘴脸喊道：
“Wait! I’ll give you all my Time Sequence. Don’t hit me — if you hit me, the damage will cancel each other out, and you’ll lose too.”
“等下，我所有时序都给你，别打，打的话还要互相抵消，你也划不来。”
Yang Zicang felt a strong urge to kill. His expression shifted several times, but in the end, he suppressed the thrill that only brutality could bring. With painful restraint, he raised his fist several times in the air, each time wanting to bring it down — but held back.
杨子藏拥有强烈的杀意，但他面色变幻几次后，最终他忍住了心中唯有残暴才能带来的痛快感。痛苦的压制下举在空中数次想要砸下的拳头。
Bai Yuan, drenched in cold sweat from the森然 (sēn rán) killing intent, finally realized that this man was not bluffing.
被这森然杀意吓得冷汗直流的白鸳终于知道这人不是在吓唬自己。
[Bai Yuan has returned my investment and distributed超额 (chāo é) profits, totaling 128N.]
[白鸳归还了我的投资，并超额分配了利润，共计128N。]
That was his entire lifespan? But the guy hadn’t aged at all.
这就是他的全部寿命？但这家伙根本没变老。
Yang Zicang got up, breathing heavily. He kicked Bai Yuan in the stomach, making the man double over in pain with an “Oww.”
杨子藏喘着粗气起身，他一脚踢在白鸳的肚子上，让这男人“噢哟”声痛苦佝偻起了身子。
“Don’t let me see you again. Otherwise, every time I see you, I’ll beat you.”
“别让我再看到你，否则见次揍你一次。”
“Take it easy, brother. Owww — hiss~”
“哥你慢走，唔哦，嘶～”
…
……
Yang Zicang started running along the underground passage. He was still thinking about the information his Model had been feeding back.
杨子藏顺着地下通道奔跑起来，他还想着模型反馈给自己的信息们。
“Hah. This damned world isn’t completely without moral sense. At least there’s a最低 (zuì dī) guarantee — even if it can be violated at any moment.”
“呼，这该死的世界，也不算完全没有道德观念，至少还有个最低的，随时可以被违背的保障。”
As he grew more familiar with this so-called Model, his speed increased. But it required a constant consumption of Time Sequence — every second cost 1R. If he kept it up for a minute, two months would be gone. Truly luxurious.
随着对这所谓模型的熟悉，他的速度越来越快，不过这需要时序的持续消耗，每一秒都是1R的减少，如果持续一分钟，两个月就没有了，还真是奢侈。
He distributed most of the investments and dividends back to their investors — except for Mu Xiaoyu’s investment.
他将大多数人的投资与红利给分配了出去，除了沐小雨的投资。
“Little beauty, can you hear me? I’m heading to the next station. Let’s meet there.”
“小美女，听得到吗，我正在往下一个站点赶去，我们在那边会和。”
Just now, when he attacked Bai Yuan, the two big organizations had immediately withdrawn their investments, but some scattered individual investors’ Time Sequence hadn’t been pulled out.
刚才在自己攻击白鸳时，两个大组织直接就撤资了，而一些零散的投资人的时序却没有撤走。
It seemed they didn’t really care much about this so-called阵营 (zhèn yíng) rule.
看来他们也不是很在意这个所谓的阵营规矩。
And at that moment, the scattered city-dwellers who had received the message began to re-evaluate that previously unremarkable subway station — it had actually given birth to a Quadrilateral ring Model.
而此刻收到消息的零星城市中人，重新审视起那原本不太被看好的地铁站来，它居然能孕育出四边形的光环模型。
Above ground, Mu Xiaoyu wiped away tears of joy.
地面上，沐小雨抹了把喜极而泣的泪珠。
She said to the two old-man-like figures beside her: “Let’s go to the next station. He’s waiting for us there.”
她对身旁两个老大爷般的人物道：“我们去下一个站点吧，他在那儿等我们。”
“Okay.” The two exchanged a glance and followed this woman, who had become much younger — now a “thirty-something” woman with a丰满 (fēng mǎn) figure — as she headed that way.
“好。”两人对视一眼，跟着重新变得年轻许多的“三十来岁”的丰腴…少女往那边赶去。
More than twenty minutes later, the three of them saw Yang Zicang’s figure on the road.
二十多分钟后，三人在路上见到了杨子藏的身影。
Then her perception画面 (huà miàn) disappeared. The ten years she had invested had already returned, along with two and a half years of Time Sequence dividends.
随后她的感知画面消失，投资的十年已经回来了，还附带了两年半的时序分润。
“You’re amazing!” The girl threw herself at him, hanging onto Yang Zicang.
“你太厉害啦！”女孩扑了过去，把自己挂在了杨子藏的身上。
For this girl, it was already an unexpected joy.
这对女孩来说已经是意外之喜了。
The two old men looked at each other and both shrugged.
两个老头互相看了眼，都耸了耸肩。