The rat-man thrust the spear into the hard steel with a “clang.” Its figure quickly scurried to the inverted spear tail. With a forceful stomp, the fierce force instantly bent the spear shaft.
鼠人将枪“铛”地声插在坚硬的钢铁里，身影迅速地窜到倒立的枪尾，脚下用力一踏，凶猛的力道将枪身瞬间压弯。
Woom!
嗡！
The rat-man leader’s entire body shot up into the sky as if catapulted.
鼠人首领整个身体如被弹射般冲天而起。
While still in mid-air, its long tail forcefully coiled around the spear shaft, pulled it out of the iron plate, and whip-like thrust it upward!
还在半空的时候，长长的尾巴用力一卷枪身，自铁板拔出后朝着上方挥鞭刺去！
Bang!
嘭！
The long spear, like a sharp sword, crossed a dozen meters of space and pierced into the protruding steel pipe opening. The rat-man leader, with its tail coiled around the spear shaft, moved swiftly and climbed up in two or three moves.
长枪如利剑划过十来米空间，刺入凸出来的钢铁管道口。用尾巴卷住枪身的鼠人首领动作敏捷，两三下就窜了上去。
Liang Xi’s heart felt as if it were being torn apart.
梁喜看得心如手撕。
In this world, it was rare to have someone who truly cared about him. Was he going to die too?
在这个世界中，难得又有位真正关心自己的人，难道他也要死了吗！
At the end of last month, in those last two minutes… only then did he and his father learn that in one hundred twenty seconds, one hundred and fifty years of Time Sequence would be deducted from each of them.
上月末时，最后那两分钟…自己和父亲才得知，居然要在120秒后每人扣除一百五十年时序消息时。
His father’s shocked expression surfaced in his mind… A Liang gritted his teeth and rushed into the depths of the passage.
父亲的震惊表情浮现脑海…阿梁咬牙冲向通道深处。
Hang in there! I must… find the legendary weapon and bring it to you!
一定要坚持住啊，我一定要…找到传说中的武器给你送过来！
…
……
Dozens of kilometers away, inside the Hunter Alliance base, Chu Qiang perceived the scene in the telepathic link, hesitated for a long time, then sighed.
距离此地几十公里外的猎怪者联盟驻地内，楚强感受着心灵链接中的画面，犹豫许久后，叹了口气。
“There’s no option to hide your name?”
“居然没有隐匿名字的选项吗…”
He walked to the fourth-floor window.
他走到四楼窗口。
On the large stone building below, Mu Xiaoyu was holding a cup of water and chatting and laughing with others. None of the people beside her had received this telepathic link scene.
下面宽大石楼上，沐小雨正拿着杯水与旁人说笑着，她身旁几人都没有收到这心灵链接的画面。
…
……
Clang, clang, dang!
铖铖铛！
Spear shadows rained down. Yang Zicang couldn’t dodge them all. Just two hits cost him two hundred years of Time Sequence. Retreating quickly, that tail, like a dexterous hand, swung the long spear again and thrust.
枪影如雨刺来，杨子藏来不及全部躲避，仅是挨了两下便少了两百年时序。快速后退中，那尾巴如同灵巧之手，再次挥长枪刺来。
Bang! Yang Zicang felt another hundred years of Time Sequence offset.
嘭！杨子藏再次感觉自己被抵消了一百年时序。
Every time it was exactly one hundred years. It suddenly occurred to him: could this spear be a Hundred-Year Artifact?
每次都只是一百年，他瞬间想到，难道这枪是百年器？
Three figures chased Yang Zicang and quickly rushed into the cave-like room. The nearby people, who had been curious about what was up there, finally got a glimpse of its appearance.
三道身影追着杨子藏速度奇快的冲进那类似洞窟的房间中，一直好奇这上面是什么的附近众人，终于得以一窥其貌。
“Such high-purity magic crystals,” the person beside Luo Xin said.
“纯度好高的魔石。”罗鑫身旁的人说道。
“I thought there was something special up here. Turns out it’s just these things.”
“我还以为这上面有什么特殊，原来仅仅只是这些东西。”
In just a few seconds, the place was in chaos. The rat-man’s spear technique was fierce and domineering. Two sweeps of the spear had swept through the area, sending countless shattered magic stones flying.
仅仅几秒，这里就一片混乱，鼠人的枪法劲猛霸道，两枪就将这里横扫了遍，无数碎裂的魔石乱飞。
“Damn it! Including principal, I only have over three thousand years of Time Sequence left!”
“可恶啊，算上本金，我只有三千多年的时序了！”
He didn’t dare stop the Dispatching ability, but Yang Zicang was still grazed by the strong wind. The long spear’s sweep covered the entire cave.
调度能力根本不敢停下，但杨子藏还是被这劲风扫到，长枪的横扫面积囊括了整个洞穴。
Boom, boom, boom!
轰轰轰！
This thrust carried unmatched might. Forced into a corner, Yang Zicang instinctively used the black iron book to block. But the force was extremely strong. The spear pinned the book and drove him into the wall.
这一枪携带无匹威势，被逼到墙角的杨子藏下意识拿出漆黑铁书挡去，但这力道及其强横，一枪钉在书上将他打进墙体。
The wall collapsed with a rumble.
墙面轰然垮塌。
Time Sequence instantly decreased by several hundred years.
时序瞬间少了数百年。
“Urgh~!” His brain was agitated as if congested with blood. The shadow of death loomed.
“呃~！”他大脑充血般激动，死亡的阴影笼罩。
Boom rumble!
轰隆！
Suddenly, behind the three rat-men, from the gap of the open iron door, countless dark shadows, tinged red, emerged.
忽地，三只鼠人背后，那铁门敞开的缝隙中，无数被映红的黑暗阴影冒了出来。
The碎石 blocking the iron door had already been crushed by the spear shadows.
抵挡铁门的碎石已经被枪影碾碎了。
A girl’s poignant murmur sounded.
少女凄然的呓语响起。
Yang Zicang, covered in dust, opened his eyes and saw the three rat-men standing frozen in place as if shocked by something. The silver-white rings on their chests quickly turned dark red and deep, flickering with an eerie light.
灰尘覆盖的杨子藏睁眼看去，只见三道鼠人仿佛被什么震慑般齐齐呆立原地。它们胸口的银白光环迅速变得暗红、深沉，闪烁着妖异的光芒。
{One hundred more needed…}
{还差一百只…}
A dark, masculine voice sounded in the hearts of all observers, devoid of emotion.
一道暗沉的男性声音，毫无感情的在所有人关注者的心间响起。
The rat-man leader suddenly let out a sharp, frenzied screech.
鼠人首领突然疯狂的发出尖锐啸声。
Outside, the rats rushed forward one after another, jumping off the cliff and vertically falling down the passage below. Stream after stream of dark shadows emerged from the bodies of the monsters whose internal organs had been ruptured, streaked across space, and converged behind the iron door.
外界那些老鼠们前仆后继地冲出悬崖，垂直坠落向下方的坑道。一道道暗影自内脏摔破的怪物躯体冒出，划过空间汇聚向铁门之后。
…
……
Inside the hall, within the body of that figure suspended for unknown ages, the gestating monster’s aura gradually rose.
大殿内，悬挂不知多少岁月的那人影体内，孕育的怪物气息逐渐拔高。
{Daddy… died, wuwu, urgh aah aah aah aah aah.}
{爸爸…死了，呜呜，呃啊啊啊啊啊啊。}
Under this voice, Yang Zicang’s emotions neared madness.
这声音下，杨子藏情绪接近疯狂。
{Ten more needed, only ten more needed. Don’t stop.}
{还差十只，只差十只，不要停。}
Silver-white light blazed on the rat-man, suppressing the red glow.
鼠人身上银白光芒大盛，压下红光。
The screeching stopped. The rat-man seemed to have gained more strange power. While resisting the “Resister’s” spiritual influence, its triangle flickered, and it thrust its spear.
啸声终止了，鼠人似乎获得了更多的奇异力量，将“抵御者”的精神影响抵御住的同时，三角形闪动，一枪刺来。
Behind the rat-man, the iron door was simultaneously pushed open by an invisible force. The heads of two struggling, head-clutching rats exploded with a bang.
鼠人身后的铁门在此刻同时被无形之力推开，两个抱着头挣扎的老鼠头颅砰然炸裂。
{Eight more needed. Quickly continue giving orders. Sacrifice for me.}
{还差八只，快继续下令，为我献祭。}
Behind the door, the crimson compound eye of that figure in the hall opened and looked this way.
门后，大殿那道身影的猩红复眼张开，看向这边。
The moment Yang Zicang met its gaze, his head went “woom” and he lost consciousness, only staring blankly at the other.
杨子藏与之对视后，脑袋嗡地声，失去了意识，只是茫然地张着眼看向对方。
The rat-man punisher’s thrust was now unavoidable.
老鼠惩戒者的这一枪再无可避。
[Void Zero Time Sequence invested, 1000N, 12 minutes 47 seconds remaining. Because I am the Mysterious Triangle, I can amplify threefold!]
[虚零时序投入，1000N，剩余12分47秒。因为我是神秘的三角形，所以我可以三倍增幅！]
At the junction of the silver-white long spear, a black phantom suddenly flashed, like a rotating micro black hole. It sucked the young man’s body forward.
银白长枪的交接处豁然闪过黑色幻影，如同旋转的微型黑洞，它将年轻人的躯体往前吸去。
At the same time, another thing was also sucked up—the already shattered black iron book.
同时被吸而起的，还有另一个东西，是那已经碎裂的黑铁之书。
Bang! The long spear pierced through the black hole phantom, pierced through the book page statue, pierced through the iron book with a large shattered hole. The spear tip stabbed into Yang Zicang’s chest. Crimson blood sprayed out.
砰！长枪穿透黑洞幻影，穿透书页神像，穿透碎裂出大洞的整本铁书，枪尖刺入杨子藏胸前，猩红鲜血洒出。
[Time Sequence decreased by 3000N.]
[时序减少3000N。]
Yang Zicang felt his life rapidly diminishing. His hair turned gray within seconds. The sharp pain made his already paralyzed nerves a little more awake.
杨子藏感觉自己的生命在迅速消减，头发在数秒内变得花白，这刺痛让他已经停止思考的神经略微清醒了点。
[Punishment complete.]
[制裁完结。]
The punisher who had delivered this strike seemed to have completed its mission. The model’s light on its body dissipated.
做出这一击的惩戒者像是完成了任务，身上的模型光芒消散。
It immediately lost its mind and roared, returning to its identity as an ordinary lair leader.
它顿时失去理智的大吼，恢复了普通巢穴首领的身份。
The red glow from behind the door easily merged into the rat-man leader’s body, making it let out a high-pitched, tearing screech!
门后的红色光芒轻易融入鼠人首领的身躯，让它嗓音高亢地嘶吼而出！
Outside, at the broken passage, monsters scattered and fled. Only a few rats that hadn’t run far heard this screech and, disregarding their lives again, turned and rushed toward the cliff.
外界那处断裂通道内怪物四散逃离，仅剩几只未跑远点老鼠听见这啸声，再次不顾性命地调转步伐冲向悬崖外。
On Yang Zicang’s chest, now with graying hair, the halo appeared.
头发花白的杨子藏胸前，光环出现。
The numbers after the decimal point inside it rapidly decreased.
其内小数点后的数字飞速变小。
[Remaining Time Sequence: 0.0R]
[剩余时序0.0R]
Yang Zicang laboriously lowered his head. His fading vision looked at the long spear thrust into his chest.
杨子藏吃力垂头，逐渐模糊的视线看向这把刺入胸前的长枪。
The black hole at the tip of the silver spear began to spin, twisting the spear shaft, about to swirl into the black hole and disappear from this world.
银枪前端的黑洞开始旋转，让枪身开始扭曲，即将旋着进入黑洞之内，消失在此世间。
Suddenly, the number slot inside the ring on his chest stretched wide…
忽地，胸前圆环内的数字格位豁然拉长…
The model seemed to be searching for a number that wasn’t zero in the impossible.
模型像是要在绝无可能中寻找到一个不是0的数字。
A red blood cell died. Then a twisted nerve network embedded in the skin decayed.
一个红细胞死了，紧接着是一个扭曲着抓在皮肤内的神经网衰败。
[Remaining Time Sequence: 0.000000001R.]
[剩余时序0.000000001R。]
“This isn’t Earth. This is… the temple of Time Sequence.”
“这里不是地球，这里是…时序的殿堂。”
His body trembled. Countless bacteria and cells inside him died simultaneously.
身体颤抖，体内无数细菌、细胞同时死去。
[Remaining Time Sequence: 0.00000326R!]
[剩余时序0.00000326R！]
Yang Zicang, head lowered, grabbed the silver-white spear shaft piercing his heart with both hands.
垂头的杨子藏双手一把抓住扎入心窝的银白枪身。
His dazed brain had only one command now—
茫然的大脑此刻只有一个命令——
Before life returned to zero, find new Time Sequence.
在生命归零前，找到新的时序。
At the same time, that cold, emotionless voice said:
同时，那冷漠无情的声音道：
{One more needed. Just one more.}
{还差一只，仅差一只。}
All of this happened in a flash of lightning and spark of flint.
这一切都只发生在电光石火之间。
The head of the rat-man leader, now somewhat smaller, had blood vessels suddenly swell.
变得矮小些的老鼠首领的头颅血管猛然膨胀起来。
“Yaaah!”
“呀啊啊！”
The aged Yang Zicang, using his last strength, pulled out the shortened long spear and threw it.
苍老的杨子藏，用尽最后的力气拔出变短的长枪掷出。
The silver spear, already more than half retracted into the black hole, crossed the space ahead!
已经缩入黑洞内大半部分的银枪穿过前方空间！
Bang!
嘭！
The rat-man leader’s head exploded. At the same time, the spear shaft swept right through its head!
老鼠首领的头颅爆开的同时，这枪身从其头内挥过！
It was unclear who had delivered the final blow.
不知到底算是谁的最后致。
Countless burst filthy substances, carrying most of the monster’s pain-ridden head, were sucked into the black hole by the silver spear! Also sucked in was the newly born, invisible dark shadow.
无数炸裂的秽物携带大半个表情痛苦的怪物头颅，被这杆银色长枪吸入黑洞！同时被吸进的，还有那刚诞生的，无人可见的黑暗虚影。
{How dare you!}
{胆敢！}
A thunderous roar from the Resister burst in his mind.
意念中爆发抵御者的雷霆爆喝。
[I gained 56.3N.]
[我收获了56.3N。]
Inside the hall, red light filled the sky. Hundreds of shadows rushed out of the monster’s body, streaked across the hall, and charged toward him.
大殿内红芒漫天，数百道阴影冲出怪物躯体，划过大殿冲来。
“Ah!”
“啊！”
Yang Zicang roared madly.
杨子藏疯狂大吼。
[Primary Corpse Leap used.]
[初级尸跳使用。]
Legs bent and pushed. At this moment, bloodstained, aged, and withered, he lunged forward like a revived zombie.
双腿屈蹬，此刻血迹斑斑，苍老枯槁的他真如复生的丧尸般前扑出去。
His skin and hair color quickly recovered.
皮肤与发色迅速恢复。
[Dispatching.]
[调度。]
Yang Zicang eerily rotated his body in the air, adjusted his posture, and had his hand touch the iron door to slam it shut while also hitting the door himself, pressing the iron door tightly shut.
杨子藏诡异的在空中旋转身体，调整姿态，让手触碰铁门砰地关上的同时，能让自己也撞在门上，将铁门压紧。
Bang thud!
砰咚！
The eerie, terrifying feeling instantly vanished.
阴森恐怖感瞬间消失。
…
……
After an unknown amount of time.
不知过了多久。
[Committee Member No. 41 is surprised by my spiritual resilience. Because after my Time Sequence returned to zero, I relied on willpower to extend my body’s instincts by an additional 3.26 seconds and completed the Time Sequence seizure.]
[41号评议委员诧异于我的精神韧性。只因我在时序归零之后，靠意志延长了额外的三点二六秒身体本能，并完成时序夺取。]
[I found a new possibility in a desperate situation.]
[我在绝境中找到了新可能。]
[I, the great Quadrilateral, have gained a complete Post Badge. This is the Committee’s compensation for my survival.]
[我，伟大的四边形，收获了一枚完整邮徽。这是评议委员会对我的存活抵偿。]
His skin became full and plump again. His heart resumed beating. But even more bright red blood quickly flowed from the horrifying wound in his chest.
皮肤饱满充盈，心脏恢复跳动，但更多鲜红血液也快速自心窝骇人伤口流淌而出。
[Committee Member No. 41 has released the ownership of the spear-shaped Time Sequence battle artifact.]
[41号评议委员解除了枪形时序战器的归属权。]
[Committee Member No. 41 informs me that I missed the最佳击杀时机 for the ‘废弃母体’.]
[41号评议委员告知我，错过了“废弃母体”最佳击杀时机。]
[Committee Member No. 41 has marked the existence of a ‘Mature Resister’ for me.]
[41号评议委员为我标记了“成熟抵御者”的存在。]
[Mature Resister discovered. Discoverer: Chosen One Yang Zicang.]
[发现成熟抵御者，发现者：应选者杨子藏。]
Yang Zicang, half-conscious, leaned against the iron door. Below his waist was the broken rock that had been blocking the door, shattered by the monster.
杨子藏迷迷糊糊的靠在铁门上，腰下是被怪物荡碎的堵门岩石。
At the end, his life had already returned to zero, but the remaining momentum in his body executed the brain’s final command: pull out the spear, swing the spear.
在最后，他的生命已经归零，但是身体的余势却执行着大脑最后的命令：拔枪，挥枪。
The spear shaft in his hand, which had been continuously shortening into the black hole, stopped. Then, inverting, the complete silver-white long spear appeared. Several telepathic link threads streaked toward him, but the unconscious Yang Zicang no longer had the清醒意志力 to receive them.
手上不断缩短进入黑洞的枪身停止，随后倒转着出现完整银色长枪的面貌。数道心灵链接的线条划来，但昏迷的杨子藏已经没有接取它们的清醒意志力。
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Somewhere. Inside this reddish-yellow subway car, it was clean and bright.
某处。这节赤黄地铁车厢内干净明亮。
The silver-uniformed man sitting on the metal bench with his sword propped beside him was silent, head bowed.
杵剑坐于金属长椅上的银色制服男人沉默垂首。
His eyes were half-open, his gaze deathly still.
他的眼眸半睁，目光死一般止静。
A fragrant breeze blew over. Long, curvaceous legs stopped beside Ma Chao. The girl crouched down and said:
香风拂来，曲线紧致的修长美腿停在马超身边，女孩蹲下道：
“Darling. It’s said… he’s dead. Now can you go back with me? Let’s go to the silver-white A-level Intersecting Land.”
“亲爱的。据说…他死了。这下子可以跟人家回去了嘛。我们去银白的A级交错地吧。”
“He’s not dead.”
“他没死。”
The man looked up. His handsome face was cold and emotionless.
男人抬起头来，帅气的面容冷漠无情。
“It seems even the world agrees that he is destined to die by my sword. I’m starting to appreciate him a little.”
“看来，连世界也认同，他注定死在我的剑下。我开始有点欣赏他了。”
He could sense it. The planted mark’s aura had not disappeared!
他能感知，种下的印记气息没有消失！