Gradually, in the darkness of the seabed, Yang Zicang and the other saw a faint red glow— the magma of an underwater volcano ahead was spewing from its crater.
逐渐杨子藏两人在海底黑暗中，看见一片暗红的光芒——前方的海底火山口岩浆喷涌。
{A volcano? Wow, so beautiful. What exactly is your experiment for?}
{火山？哇哦，好美。你的实验到底是干什么啊。}
[I want to give life back to the dead Nightmares.]
[我想给死去的恶魇，重新赋予生命。]
{What?!}
{什么？！}
Morri, distorted by the pressure of the seawater, felt like this guy was insane.
被海水挤压变形的莫里感觉这人疯了。
{We barely managed to kill those things, and you want to revive them? You’re not some movie villain, are you?}
{好不容易搞死的东西，你还想复活？你不会是电影里的反派吧。}
[Enough chatter. Help me inject the Temporal Prime into them, now let’s go.]
[别废话，快帮我给它们注入时序本金，来吧。]
The seawater roared. Countless dull-colored spiritual artifacts and weapons, glowing with radiance, shot like a school of fish toward the towering metal pillar at the center of the magma.
海水发出轰鸣。无数带着辉光的暗沉色灵物战器，如同群游鱼射向岩浆正中高耸金属柱。
On it was a stone emitting a faint red glow, like red amber. The spirit weapon gates gathered closely around it, and the weapons quickly softened, as if the essence of life was being drained from them by something formless inside.
那上面有个散发着微弱红光的石头，如同红色琥珀。灵物战器门聚集紧贴着它，战器快速变得软化，像是被里面无形之物吸取了生命的精华。
[The lingering thoughts of the spirit weapons are devouring my time sequence heir.]
[灵物战器的残念正在吞噬属于我的时序。]
This is the crystallization of the Flame Nightmare; dying embers reigniting is the nature of fire!
这就是火焰恶魇的结晶，死灰复燃是火焰的特性！
Time ticked by, and Mori, overwhelmed deep within the magma, finally had a moment to catch his breath.
时间一分一秒过去，深入岩浆内忙坏了的莫里终于有时间歇口气。
{What the hell are you trying to do?}
{你到底要做什么？}
Yang Zicang hesitated for a moment, then said:
杨子藏的沉默了下，他道：
[Do you still remember those two cicadas in my palm?]
[还记得那两只在我掌中的知了吗。]
{What?}
{What？}
[They waited obediently in my hand for a long time. Perhaps it was due to my spiritual strength, but I could feel that they saw me—having prolonged their lives with mine—as… family.]
[它们很听话的在我手中待了很久。可能是我精神力强度的原因，当时我能感觉到，被我用寿命延续过的它们，将我当成了…亲人。]
Family!
亲人！
In that instant, a lightning bolt of understanding struck Mori’s mind.
莫里霎那间一道闪电划过脑海。
{You, you’re trying to tame an Evil Nightmare?}
{你你，你想收服只恶魇？}
[Not only am I reviving the Nightmare; what I will revive is a Nightmare loyal to me!]
[我不仅是要复活恶魇，我要复活的，是忠于我的恶魇！]
{You’re a terrifying person.}
{你真是个可怕的家伙。}
……
……
Day after day passed, and Yang Zicang sat cross-legged, floating above that lava area.
日子一天天过去，杨子藏盘腿漂浮在这片熔岩区域上方。
On this day, he suddenly felt a faint gaze upon him.
这一日他忽地感受到了丝微弱注视感。
His eyes snapped open.
双目唰地睁开。
There seemed to be a pair of small, pure eyes staring at him without any attempt to hide.
似乎有双小小的，纯净的目光正毫不掩饰地注视着自己。
[The lingering thoughts of the spirit weapons have given birth to a blank consciousness. It wants to eat something.]
[灵物战器的残念诞生了空白神识，它想吃点什么。]
Yang Zicang sensed a hint of vitality from within that crystal.
杨子藏从那块晶石内感受到了一丝活力。
That so-called resurrection from the ashes—truly, as an evil nightmare born of flame, he thought excitedly, after the fire nightmare had devoured enough kindred and life force, it was really beginning its third resurrection!
所谓死灰复燃，果然作为火焰诞生的恶魇。他兴奋的想到，在火之恶魇吞入足够多的同类与寿命后，真开始第三次复活了！
But this third resurrection was so difficult; how many years had passed already?
但是这第三次的复活，好难，这都过去多少年了。
Wanting to eat something… Yang Zicang thought about the desire born within his own consciousness.
想吃点什么…杨子藏想着内心诞生的心念。
Having dealt with the nightmare for millennia, he naturally knew that the first and second creatures it devoured determined its level of intelligence.
跟恶魇打了几千年交道的他当然知道，恶魇第一二次吞噬的生物决定了它的智慧程度。
Now that it was newly reborn, technically it would be best to devour a human, but even in his dreams, Yang Zicang felt he couldn’t bring himself to do such a thing.
此刻获得新生的它，按理来说吞掉个人类是最好的，但那种事情，哪怕是在梦中杨子藏也自觉得干不出来。
He approached the now-pale crystal stone. Inside the semi-translucent egg-like rock, a white, wolf-headed fire centipede lay curled up.
他来到这块变得淡白的晶石旁，半透明石蛋般的岩石内，白色的狼头形火蜈蚣在里面蜷缩着。
[It has absolute trust in me.]
[它对我产生着绝对信任。]
[It asks me if it can devour the excess “same kind.”]
[它询问我是否可以吃掉多余的“同类”。]
Excess? The instant Yang Zicang looked into the crystal, the white, semi-transparent monster suddenly burst out of the stone egg.
多余的？杨子藏看向晶莹石头内的瞬间，这白色半透明的怪物猛然从石卵中冲出。
The seawater didn’t stir at all, but Yang Zicang felt as if a typhoon were sweeping through his spiritual world.
海水没有丝毫波动，可是杨子藏感觉精神世界仿佛刮起了台风。
It was a pure spiritual entity!
它是纯粹的精神体！
Boom!
轰隆隆！
The monster abruptly grew to the height of a three-story building, its massive gaping maw arching down to swallow Yang Zicang whole.
怪物豁然变得宛若三层楼般高，那庞大的巨口弯曲着一口向下吞向杨子藏。
In the distance, Morris, cultivating under the high pressure of seawater, sensed some disturbance.
远方在海水高压下修行的莫里感受到了什么动静。
The moment he turned his head, he saw an ethereal monster opening its maw to swallow the man standing on the magma.
他转头看过去的瞬间，瞧见一只虚无的怪物正张嘴吞向站在岩浆上的男人。
{Mental energy… No, it’s a legendary psychokinetic body?!}
{精神能量…不，是传说中的念力体？！}
Mori felt a sense of panic.
莫里感觉到一种心慌。
{Run, what are you doing! Psychokinetic power can hurt you!}
{快跑啊，你在干什么！念力能伤到你！}
YangZicang ignored Mori’s call. Just now, he indeed wanted to flee, but a moment before making the move, he forcibly controlled his instinctive reaction.
杨子藏没有理会莫里的呼唤，刚刚自己的确想跑，可是在做出动作的前一瞬他强行控制住了自己的下意识反应。
The other party absolutely trusted him.
对方绝对信任着自己。
The wolf-like maw wrapped around and embedded his head entirely.
如狼般的巨口一口将自己的头颅嵌住。
Mori stared in shock. That guy, that four-sided guy, was caught so easily…
莫里震惊的看着那里，那家伙，那个拥有四边形的家伙，居然就这么轻易的…
Gulp.
咕咚。
The monster’s throat rumbled. Its head suddenly rose, its mouth holding a twisted, insubstantial phantom.
这怪物的喉咙响了下，它的头一下拔高，口中嵌着片扭曲的虚影。
This phantom came from YangZicang’s head.
这片虚影来自杨子藏的头颅。
The centipede fiercely pulled at it, but the phantom seemed glued to the inside of his skull by powerful adhesive. At this moment, YangZicang was in excruciating pain, as if his spirit was being forcibly dragged out.
蜈蚣往上死死扯住它，这虚影却如同被强力胶水粘住了般在头颅内。杨子藏此刻痛苦万分，他感觉自己的精神似乎被人在往外拔出。
Yet YangZicang could also sense that a certain thing, faintly present within his head, was the true target of this resurrected nightmare.
但杨子藏也能感觉到，头内一直隐约存在的某个东西才是这复活恶魇的目标。
Bang!
嘭！
The centipede nightmare’s spiritual body violently shook its head, ripping out the “thing” that was deeply embedded in YangZicang’s skull, and tossed it hard! The seawater boomed with a dull roar.
蜈蚣恶魇的精神体将头猛甩，一口将死嵌在杨子藏头颅内的“东西”拔出，猛甩！海水轰然闷响。
A massive subway station rapidly unfurled, appearing as if a scene had shifted and materialized in this place.
一栋庞大的地铁站台快速展开，宛若交错幕景诞生般，出现在了这儿。
“A psychic subway station?”
“念力地铁站？”
……
……
Throughout the station, countless apparitions of Yang Zicang roamed around.
站台四处，无数杨子藏的虚影在走动。
Some were merely floating heads, others only limbs, and yet others were instances of him as a child, or dressed in various outfits, carrying schoolbags or basketballs.
有的只有头漂浮，有的则只有手脚，还有小时候的杨子藏，以及穿着各种不同衣物，背着书包或篮球的杨子藏。
But among these figures, there was also another presence—a shadow of a different man!
但这些人中，还有另一道不同男人的身影！
[My mind is on the verge of collapse.]
[我的精神正在崩溃边缘。]
As if he had just died once, Yang Zicang clutched his head in agony.
像是死过去一次般，杨子藏痛苦捂住头。
{Are you okay?}
{你有没有事啊。}
Mouri appeared beside Yang Zicang, watching him and this area anxiously.
莫里出现在杨子藏身边，紧张的看着他，以及这片区域。
Suddenly, his eyes widened in shock. On a public metal bench in the distance, there was a figure in a silver-white uniform.
突然他的眼眸一震。远处公共铁椅子上有道银白制服身影。
[I…I’m fine…]
[我，我还好…]
Yang Zicang’s chaotic will began to recover slightly.
杨子藏混乱的意志开始稍微恢复了点。
{You scared me to death. I just saw your head grow so faint… this monster…}
{吓死我了，刚刚我看到你脑袋都变淡了许多，这怪物…}
The centipede did not attack again. Instead, it nibbled at this vast psychic subway station endlessly, like a cow gnawing on leaves, mouthful by mouthful.
蜈蚣没有再次攻击，而是一口一个缺，就像牛啃树叶般嚼着这片巨大的念力地铁站台。
[It doesn’t aim to hurt me.]
[它不是想伤害我。]
With his left hand clutching his head, Yang Zicang stretched out his right hand to stop Mouri, who was about to amplify the timeline. He struggled to lift his head. His own apparitions filled the entire subway station—these were all memories of his past self.
杨子藏左手捂头，伸出右手阻止了想要增幅时序的莫里。他吃力抬起头来。满地铁站自己的身影，这些都是关于过去自己的记忆。
Then, his gaze fell on the figure of the man in the silver uniform in the distance.
随后，他的目光落在远处的那道银色制服男人身影上。
That man did not seem to be living, merely a phantom.
那人似乎不具备生命特征，只是一道幻影。
{It’s that man! When did you piss off that subway driver guy? Are you from the same city as him?}
{是那个人！你什么时候惹上那个开地铁的家伙的，你跟他是一个城的人？}
[I’ve never seen this man. What, do you know him?]
[我没见过此人。怎么，你认识他？]
{Heh, Mr. Yang. Very few people from your city can enter Hubtown hub, and that man is one of the few who can. But he didn’t come through normal channels.}
{呵呵，子藏先生。你们那座城市能进入枢纽镇的人很少，那个人就是能进来的其中之一。但他不是通过正常渠道。}
Mori cautiously took a few steps toward that spot and tossed a piece of seaweed at him. The seaweed hit the man and nearly embedded itself right into him.
莫里小心翼翼往哪地方走了几步，用一块海藻丢过去，海藻打在那人身上，差点直接嵌在上面。
[Not through normal channels, so how then?]
[不是正常渠道，那是什么？]
{Stowaway! He used his Nightmare ability. This man’s power allows him to traverse dreams and manifest in reality.}
{偷渡！他靠他的恶魇能力。这个人的能力可以穿越梦境，真实降临。}
Yang Zicang’s pupils suddenly contracted.
杨子藏的瞳孔猛然一缩。
It’s Ma Chao! He also got it at the subway station… no, it was his companion Fiend that was born in the subway station.
是马超！他也是在地铁站获得的…不对，是他的伴生魔，是在地铁站诞生的。
The two walked to the side of the phantom. Ma Chao’s figure stood motionless like a wax statue. Yang Zicang reached out and touched him; his palm felt like it had plunged into an intense energy body, able to stir inside it but meeting great resistance, unable to grasp anything.
两人走到这虚影身边。马超的身影如同蜡像一动不动，杨子藏用手触摸，手掌像是深入浓烈的能量体内似的，可以在他体内搅动，却阻力很大，且什么也抓不到。
{Many people in our Harbor Town have talked about him. Never expected he was from the same city as you, and that he actually marked you. Mr. Yang, consider yourself lucky. Otherwise, you might have been killed in your sleep without ever knowing it.}
{我们的枢纽镇有很多人谈论过他。没想到是跟你同城的人，而且还被他标记了。子藏先生，庆幸啊，不然你可能什么时候就在睡梦中被人给干掉了。}
This guy really is an expert, because his opponent was absolutely formidable. Mori thought to himself, his expression complicated as he looked at the Nightmarish Fiend beside him that had returned from death.
这个人果然是个高手，因为他的对手就非常厉害。莫里想到，他神色复杂地看着身旁死而复生的恶魇。
{Also, I have to congratulate you on acquiring a telepathic nightmare. I hope you can find a way to bring it into reality.}
{另外，我得恭喜你，竟然获得了念力型恶魇，希望你能想办法将它带入现实。}
Yang Zicang said solemnly:
杨子藏凝重的道：
[Let’s pause the nightmare matter for now. What else do you know about Ma Chao? What does real-death manifestation mean? Does it refer to appearing beside those people when they are asleep?]
[恶魇的事先暂停。你还知道马超的什么信息？真实降临是什么意思，在睡着的时候出现在那些人身边吗。]
{So his name is Ma Chao. Well, it is said that anyone marked by this Mr. Red Model can, when they fall asleep at midnight, summon his psychic train through a dream platform and truly manifest right next to the target.}
{原来他叫马超，嗯，据说被这位红模型的先生标记过的人，在午夜睡着的时候，可以通过梦境站台让他的念力列车靠站，真正的出现在目标身边。}
Mo Li said with great envy:
莫里很是羡慕的道：
{He is a rare owner of psychic abilities. And now, so are you.}
{他是珍贵的念能力拥有者。当然，现在你也是了。}
Yang Zicang’s expression turned grim. The ability to appear beside someone who has fallen asleep before they wake…
杨子藏肃然。等别人睡着就可以出现在熟睡之人身边的能力…
Even just hearing the description, he could tell why a rift existed between them.
听名字就晓得自己跟他的梁子结在哪里。
Yang Zicang speculated about why he hadn’t been attacked yet. Perhaps, in the two nights of sleep he had in reality, he had entered the You-Wei World. Otherwise, Ma Chao might have already appeared beside him and finished him off.
杨子藏估摸着自己还没有被攻击的原因。或许是现实中的两天睡觉，都进入了邮徽世界，否则可能马超可能已经出现在了身边做掉了自己。
The centipede-like monster beside him had a stomach like a bottomless pit. It swallowed forward along the edge, its curved pincer-like teeth near its mouth constantly tearing off pieces of psychic energy and stuffing them inside, until it reached Ma Chao, who was sitting on the stool.
旁边的蜈蚣怪物肚子像是个无底洞，它顺着边儿一口口吞了过来，嘴巴旁的两根弯曲钳牙不断将撕下的念力体塞入嘴中，直到它来到凳子上的马超身边。
The wolf-headed centipede glanced at Yang Zicang, as if asking whether he still wanted to spar. Otherwise, it was ready to eat.
狼头蜈蚣看了自己一眼，像是在询问还要不要比划，不然就要开吃了。
Yang Zicang took two steps back and moved out of the way.
杨子藏后退了两步让开路。
The centipede thrust its massive head forward and swallowed Ma Chao’s apparition whole. Suddenly, it froze in place.
蜈蚣硕大的头颅一口将马超的幻影吞入，忽地它顿住在原地。
Bang!
嘭！
The monster’s head exploded.
怪物头颅炸开。