Yang Zicang quickly closed the book, and only then did the dizziness mostly dissipate.
杨子藏赶紧将书合上，这才感觉头晕感消散许多。
“This thing is certainly good.”
“这东西肯定不错。”
Even though he couldn’t read it, he was sure it contained precious knowledge from another world. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have used such materials to forge it. Because every character on it was inlaid with silver thread, showing how much effort the craftsmen had poured into it.
虽然看不懂，但他肯定这上面记载着异世界的珍贵知识，否则不会用这种材料来铸造。因为它上面的每一个文字都是用银丝镶嵌上去的，可见其耗费了多少铸造者的心血。
After putting away the book, Yang Zicang looked at a small, rust-covered door on the wall.
将书收起后，杨子藏看向了墙上的一扇锈迹斑斑的小门。
He pushed it. The tightly shut, rusted iron door let out a creaking sound. Fortunately, it contained no Time Sequence.
推了下，紧闭的生锈铁门发出嘎吱响的声音。还好，它没有蕴含时序。
After some effort to smash its lock open, Yang Zicang broke off a cluster of faintly glowing magic crystals and, using their light, cautiously entered this somewhat narrow passage.
费了翻功夫将它的锁砸开后，杨子藏掰下一簇散发微光的魔晶，借它们的光亮小心翼翼地进入这条略显狭窄的通道。
The air was stuffy. After walking for about ten minutes, there was another door ahead, but it was open. Outside the door, in the pitch-black hall, a gloomy wind rippled, wafting wave after wave onto the young man’s face.
空气沉闷，走进来十来分钟后，前方又是另一道门，但它敞开着，门外的漆黑大殿内阴风荡漾，一阵阵扑到年轻人的面庞之上。
[I, the great Quadrilateral, sense a gloomy aura.]
[我，伟大的四边形，感受到阴郁的气息。]
Yang Zicang quickly crossed the gloomy passage toward the door ahead.
杨子藏快速穿过阴郁的通道往前方那扇门走去。
When he was still three or four steps from the door, he suddenly felt a sense of panic. His steps involuntarily stopped. In the silence, faint, dark sobbing sounds seemed to sound, barely audible.
在距离门口还有三四步的时候，他忽然感觉到心慌。脚步不由得停下，安静中，似乎有暗暗的啜泣声若有若无的响起。
It sounded like a human woman’s voice, but… it seemed weak and feeble, yet echoing as if it had lasted for ages.
这像是人类女人的声音，但…却显得有气无力，又如万古长存般回荡不息。
An immense sense of fear suddenly appeared. Yang Zicang’s scalp tingled. Without hesitation, he quickly turned and ran back.
一种莫大的恐惧感突然出现，杨子藏头皮发麻，他毫不犹豫迅速转身往后奔去。
[Committee Member No. 41 has marked for me the abandoned mother entity of ‘Monster Bloodline’.]
[41号评议委员为我标记了‘怪物血脉’的废弃母体。]
[Abandoned monster mother entity, ability: unknown. Discoverer: Chosen One Yang Zicang.]
[怪物母体（废弃），能力：未知。发现者：应选者杨子藏。]
[If I eliminate it, Committee Member No. 41 will grant me his primary bloodline sculpture.]
[如若我将之消灭，41号评议委员将赐予我属于他的初级血脉雕塑。]
Bloodline? Yang Zicang was stunned for a moment, then immediately felt a chilling aura approaching from behind.
血脉？杨子藏一愣后，随即便感觉森然气息自背后袭来。
That voice seemed far yet near—when far, it seemed at the edge of the sky; when near, it was as if whispering right in his ear!
那声音似远似近，远时恰在天边，近时仿佛就在自己耳畔低语！
Screw bloodline or not, mother entity or not.
管它什么血脉不血脉，母体不母体。
Yang Zicang ran like mad.
杨子藏发疯似的跑动。
[Committee Member No. 41 expects me to do battle with the ‘Mother Entity’.]
[41号评议委员期待我与‘母体’进行战斗。]
Tap, tap, tap, tap.
踏嗒踏嗒。
This passage seemed endless. The voice grew clearer and closer. In the end, Yang Zicang even felt that there was a figure beside him, eagerly fleeing alongside him.
这条通道似乎没有尽头般，那声音越来越清晰，越来越近，到最后，杨子藏甚至感觉自己身旁有个人影跟随着自己在急切的逃跑。
{Daddy.}
{爸爸。}
A soft, anxious girl’s breath seemed to sound in his ear—but it was a bone-chilling, eerie air.
耳畔似有柔嫩少女焦虑的吐息之声，但那是彻骨的阴森之气。
{Are you taking me to see Daddy?… Ask him, what did he have his daughter conceive?…}
{你是带我去见爸爸吗…你问问他，他让女儿怀的是什么…}
{Why am I so cold?… Why are the villagers afraid of me?… Am I not the mother of the divine emissary?… Am I really?…}
{为什么我好冷…为什么村民都害怕我呢…我不是神使的母亲吗…真的是吗…}
{Why did A Lang die just from touching me?…}
{为什么，阿郎只是摸了我，就死了呢…}
Countless strange utterances sounded from left and right. What terrified Yang Zicang was that he could actually understand her words.
无数怪异的语言忽左忽右的响起，而杨子藏恐惧的是自己居然还能听懂她的话。
{Why do I feel like ages have passed?…}
{为什么我感觉过了好久好久…}
Ahead, the sight of a door appeared. The woman’s weak voice became a little more excited, as if long-awaited expectations were about to become reality.
前方出现门的光景，这女人虚弱的声音也跟着变得雀跃了些，似乎长久的期待即将变为现实。
{Daddy, after all these years, what are you still studying over there?…}
{爸爸，这么多年了，你还在那边研究什么…}
That skeleton—was it her father?
那尸骨是她父亲？
Yang Zicang gritted his teeth, suddenly accelerated, rushed out of the room, and turned back to close the door.
杨子藏咬牙，猛地加速冲出房间，回首将门关上。
But in that instant, he realized with a chill running down his spine that the other side of this door was the same eerie hall he had just seen.
但在这刹那，他寒气直冒的发现，这门的另一面就是刚才看见的那阴森大殿。
The passage had disappeared.
通道消失了。
Now the hall was filled with a hazy, dim blue light. Suspended within silver-white iron chains covered with runes was a figure with an extremely weary expression.
此刻殿内朦胧幽蓝光线密布，其中由贴满符文的银白铁链内，悬吊着个神色疲倦不已的人影。
The clothes on the figure were ragged and old, decayed as if they had endured a thousand years.
人影身上的衣服已经破败陈旧，宛如历经千年时光般腐朽。
The belly was swollen, more exaggerated than a ten-month pregnancy, stretched so thin that the skin was translucent like a silkworm’s wing. Various blood vessels covered her skin like magical patterns.
那肚子挺起，比怀胎十月还要夸张，撑得皮肤已经薄如蚕翼，各式血管如同魔纹遍布她的皮肤。
And inside that translucent skin was a curled-up figure the size of a ten-year-old child. His whole body was like a human’s, but he had a crimson tail coiled around himself.
而在那半透明的皮肤之内，是个宛如十来岁小孩般大小的蜷缩身影，他全身如同人类，但却长着根缠绕着自己的赤红尾巴。
The moment Yang Zicang looked at him, the face buried within the belly—the curled-up “person”—opened a single blood-red compound eye.
在杨子藏看向他的瞬间，那蜷缩于肚皮内的“人”埋着的脸庞上，睁开只血红的复眼。
[I have been gazed upon by a ‘Resister’.]
[我被“抵御者”注视了。]
Yang Zicang felt a deeper surge of some power emerge from the halo on his chest.
杨子藏感觉胸口的光环霎时涌现出更深层的某种力量。
A strong urge for violence and bloodlust flooded his brain like an addiction. He felt his eyes burning, his head about to explode.
强烈的暴力与嗜血欲望如同上瘾般充斥着大脑，他感觉自己的眼睛灼热，头脑像要爆炸。
A faint red glow emerged from the ring on his chest.
胸前的圆环冒出丝微弱的红芒。
Bang!
砰！
Yang Zicang used all his strength to slam the rusted iron door shut.
杨子藏用尽力气将生锈的铁门关紧。
{Let me through…}
{放我过去…}
The piercing voice quickly weakened. All the eerie, terrifying aura instantly vanished without a trace.
凄厉的声音迅速变弱，所有阴森恐怖的气息立即便消失无踪。
Yang Zicang gasped for breath.
杨子藏大口大口的喘着气。
Only now did he realize that this frail-looking iron door could actually block such an ominous aura.
此刻他才发现这看上去脆弱的铁门，居然能阻隔那样不详的气息。
“This damn world.”
“这鬼世界。”
He wiped his sweat, then wiped the rust off the door with his hand, revealing thin golden wires embedded into the door underneath. “Something’s here?”
擦了擦汗，再拿手擦了把门上铁锈，露出下面嵌入门内的金丝细线，“有东西？”
After wiping a few more times, the full pattern was revealed. It was a design similar to a magical formation of runes. But Yang Zicang knew this magical formation was not simple. The moment he tried to memorize it, he felt another wave of dizziness and nearly fainted.
继续抹了两把，露出它的全部图案，是个类似魔纹法阵的纹路。杨子藏却心知这法阵不简单。刚试着记忆，便觉得头脑又一阵眩晕，差点昏厥过去。
{Brother Yang, are you okay?}
{杨哥，你还好吗？}
“Still, still alright…”
“还，还行…”
Yang Zicang turned his head away and said, “I think I know why those monsters were chasing me so crazily. They were probably trying to stop me from coming here.”
杨子藏避过头去道：“我好像知道为什么那些怪物疯狂追我了，它们应该就是阻止我过来这里啊。”
That break was probably also deliberately made by someone.
那断口恐怕也是被人有意为之！
At this moment, Liang Xi also understood that the reason he had survived was only because he hadn’t approached that other side. Otherwise, facing that group of monsters, he wouldn’t have lasted a few seconds.
此刻梁喜也明白了自己之所以能活着，只是因为自己没靠近那半边，否则面对那群怪物，自己根本活不几秒。
Yang Zicang found stones to brace the door. After thinking, still not reassured, he found a scattered piece of iron and laboriously carved onto a small stone slab:
杨子藏寻找了石头将门抵住。想了想，还不放心，于是找了块散落的铁片，在一块小石板上吃力刻画起来：
—On the other side of the door is a woman who has nurtured the “Monster Mother Entity” for many years. Dangerous! Do not enter lightly!!!
——门对面是孕育了“怪物母体”很多年的女人，危险，切勿轻易进入！！！
Hoping to warn those who came after.
希望能警示后人吧。
At this moment, the Quadrilateral’s somewhat eerie telepathic voice sounded:
而这时，四边形变得略带瘆人的心念声响起：
[Committee Member No. 41 regrets my cowardly choice.]
[41号评议委员遗憾于我的懦弱选择。]
“What’s there to regret?” That thing had only looked out from inside the woman’s body, and his model had almost undergone a strange change.
“有什么遗憾的”，那家伙只是在女人体内往外看了眼，自己的模型就差点出现奇怪的变化。
[Committee Member No. 41 initiates a sanction vote against me. Countdown: ten minutes.]
[41号评议委员发起对我的制裁投票，倒计时十分钟。]
“?” Yang Zicang suppressed the urge to curse this unknown existence.
“？”杨子藏压制了咒骂这个未知存在的想法。
…
……
On the other side, Liang Xi’s heart pounded.
另一边，梁喜心脏咚咚直跳。
His dream of earning Time Sequence here was shattered. He had survived purely out of luck. If he stayed any longer, he could die at any moment.
他对于在这里赚取时序的梦已经破碎了，自己纯粹就只是因为运气好而已，再待下去，随时都可能会死掉。
{Brother, what should we do? Is there any other way out where you are?}
{哥，怎么办，你那里还有别的路可以出去吗？}
“I think I sense the flow of wind. I’ll check later to see if there’s a way to somewhere else in the pipe I just came from.”
“我好像感知到风的流动，等下我找看看刚才的管道内有没有通往别的地方的路。”
Yang Zicang glanced at these faintly glowing magic crystals and said, “What can these things be used for?”
杨子藏看了眼这些散发微光的魔石，说道：“这些东西能拿来干嘛？”
{They can be used to make equipment. They can also be used to build houses. Combined with Headquarters’ blueprints, it’s said that houses built with them are less likely to give birth to Nightmares. I don’t know about any other uses.}
{可以用来制作装备。还可以修房子。结合总部的图纸，据说由它们造的房子会比较难诞生恶魇。至于其它作用我也不知道。}
It was as vague as what Yao Qiming had said. It seemed the use of these things wasn’t something ordinary people could understand. The grade of the magic crystals here was unknown, but at least they could fill more than a large box.
跟姚启明说的一样笼统。看来这玩意儿的运用不是普通人搞得懂的。这里的魔石不知道等级如何，但至少数量能装一大箱以上。
Yang Zicang pulled his thoughts back, raised a glowing magic crystal, and walked back the way he came.
杨子藏收回心神，举起发光魔石往来路走去。
This time, his pace was very slow. After each step, he closed his eyes and stopped to feel the air flow around him for a long while. Before long, he actually found the direction from which this faint wind was blowing.
这次他的速度很慢，走一步要闭目停下感受周围空气的流动好一会儿，没多久，还真叫他找到了这股若有若无的风力吹来的方向。
“It’s here, right?”
“是这里吧。”
The young man in the faint light raised the magic crystal and looked at a piece of broken sheet metal high above. It was pitch black there.
微光中的青年将魔石举起，看向高处的一个破碎的铁皮，那里黑洞洞的。
{That opening is too small, Brother Yang.}
{那洞口太小了，杨哥。}
Without Liang Xi saying it, Yang Zicang could already see it clearly. A normal person couldn’t possibly fit through that small hole.
不用梁喜说，杨子藏已经看清了，正常人根本无法通过那个小洞。
“This time we’re in trouble. Monsters ahead, pursuers behind.”
“这次麻烦了，前有魔物，后有追兵。”
And some kind of punishment, unknown what.
还有不知什么的惩罚。
He hadn’t brought food or water because Yang Zicang had originally planned to come in first to test the monsters’ strength. The density of monsters Liang Xi had encountered had misled him.
而自己食物和水都没带，这是因为杨子藏本打算先进来试试怪物的强度。梁喜遭遇怪物的密度迷惑了自己。
{You have to eliminate them all to get out, Brother Yang. You can do it, right?}
{你只有把它们都消灭了，才能出来，杨哥，你能做到的吧。}
A Liang said expectantly.
阿梁期待的道。
[The sanction vote against me has been completed. Votes in favor: 5. Abstentions: 40. Result: Effective.]
[对我的制裁投票已完成，赞成票数5，弃权票数40，结果为：生效。]
“What? This can be effective too? And so fast, only three or four minutes.” Yang Zicang was a bit bewildered.
“什么，这也能生效？还这么快，才三四分钟。”杨子藏有些茫然。
Suddenly, the telepathic link he had been maintaining with Liang Xi was cut off.
突然，梁喜跟自己一直进行着的心灵链接断掉了。
The light from the model on his chest automatically spread out, dissipating into the surrounding air and disappearing.
胸前的模型光芒自动展开，扩散进周围的空气中消失不见。
Yang Zicang waited somewhat nervously. Dozens of seconds passed, and still no one invested or sent a telepathic link.
杨子藏有些紧张的等待着，十几秒过去，依旧没有任何人进行投资或者是心灵链接传来。
“The punishment is… not being able to receive investments?”
“惩罚是，不能接受投资吗？”
Rumble…
隆隆……
Woom rumble…
嗡隆隆…
Strange sounds came from where the rat monsters were gathered.
老鼠怪物聚集之地传来怪异声响。
Yang Zicang walked toward the passage opening. One look made his hair stand on end. Below, their figures were packed densely.
杨子藏往通道口走去，看了一眼后，寒毛直竖。下面密密麻麻堆满了它们的身影。
But when Yang Zicang appeared, they collectively retreated as if they had intelligence, hiding their bodies out of sight.
不过当杨子藏出现后，它们像是有智慧般的集体后退，将躯体藏在视线之外。
“There’s a leader?”
“有指挥者？”
A look of gravity appeared in Yang Zicang’s eyes.
杨子藏目光露出凝重之色。
Could this monster lair also have an intelligent leader?
难道这座怪物巢穴内还有拥有智慧的首领。
“Heh… but,” these monsters didn’t know that he could make his attacks turn corners. Just as A Liang had said, this was a good opportunity. Rough estimate, there were at least a thousand years of Time Sequence waiting for him to harvest down there.
“呵…不过”，这些怪物可不知道自己能让攻击拐弯。跟阿梁说得一样，这算是个好机会。粗算起来，这下面便拥有着至少上千年的时序等待着自己的收获。
Yang Zicang pinched a handful of small stones and threw them down. The stones flickered with silver ethereal light in his hand.
杨子藏捏起把碎石子，手上银色虚光闪动的石子抛了下去。
Bang!
砰！
The stone traced an arc and rushed straight into the pipe, then collided with an invisible barrier.
石子划过弧线直冲进那管道内后，撞在了无形的屏障上。
[Time Sequence consumed: 500N.]
[时序消耗500N。]
Yang Zicang’s heart tightened.
杨子藏心中一紧。
This stone had just used five hundred amplified Time Sequence, and it had been completely offset.
刚刚这石子就是用的五百增幅时序，居然被全部抵消了。
Suddenly, the model’s telepathic voice came through.
忽然，模型的心念声传来。
[Punishment content: Survive for one quarter-hour.]
[惩戒内容：存活一刻钟。]