第一百六十二章 昼与夜的较量 -3
A total of thirty-five divine stones had already been collected. Within the next half hour, two more seals were broken, bringing the count to thirty-seven.
共计已经收集了三十五块神石，接下来不到半小时又解除封印了两块，已经是三十七块。
Xingmiao turned his ethereal head and looked at the remaining stones beside him, saying:
星渺转动虚无的头颅，望向身旁剩下的石头，开口道：
“In another hour, these seals will be completely undone.”
“再有一小时，这些封印就能完全解除。”
Luo Bin leaned forward in slight panic and asked:
洛宾略有慌张的前伸着脑袋询问：
“Is the Editor-in-Chief really strong? Is this enough?”
“主编实力很强吗，这些够不够。”
The few people around were all fixedly staring at this shattered bone phantom.
周围几人都牢牢注视着这到碎骨虚影。
Countless broken lines flickered and darted through the air in all directions. Star Miao, looking at the anxious people around him and these subtle broken lines rippling like a net of waves, raised a hand to stop Yang Zicang from continuing the connection, and said:
空气中无数道折线闪动着窜来。星渺看着周围焦急的几人，以及这些如丝网波浪般翻滚的细微折线，抬手阻止杨子藏继续接通后，说道：
“When she first came long ago, she wasn’t very strong. She might be a bit stronger now, so I’ve prepared a bit more.”
“很久以前她初次来时，还不算很强。现在或许更强了点吧，所以我多准备了点。”
Suddenly, Star Miao’s hazy eyes stared in one direction.
突然，星渺朦胧的双目望向一个方向。
“She’s here.”
“她来了。”
An inexplicable sense of panic lingered through the heavens and earth. A snowy white figure appeared on the distant horizon.
莫名的恐慌情绪萦绕着天地，遥远地平线上出现道雪白色身影。
Ssshh—
呲——
The train screeched to a halt on the ground amidst streaks of smoke and dust.
列车极速停止在大地上，划出烟尘痕迹。
The junior reporters descended one after another, some passing through the train compartments, some staying outside.
小记者们纷纷下落，它们有的穿过车厢，有的在车厢之外。
Every screen in Hub Town displayed what was happening here, but the video signal was very poor, showing only blurry, flickering images.
枢纽镇内的荧幕上，无不显示着这里的情况，不过画面信号非常差，只能看到朦胧闪动的影像。
Yang Zicang suddenly felt two weighty gazes fix on him, sweeping over him before looking ahead into the dark land.
杨子藏忽然感觉两道如有实质的目光落下，它们扫过自己，又望向前方的黑暗大地。
As stood on the murky horizon, the hazy figure ahead seemed like the only light swaying in the vast night, bringing a patch of radiance spreading over the earth.
前方朦胧的身影站在黑暗的地平线上，仿佛黑夜里摇曳的唯一光芒，为大地带来一抹扩散的白晕。
She looked like a nimble silhouette casually painted by an artist’s brushstroke of muted white against darkness, exceptional and unmatched.
像是画家在黑暗中用一道灰白笔触随意勾勒出的灵动身姿，卓绝非凡。
“You guys shouldn’t go forward,” Star Miao said as he stood up.
“你们就不要往前了。”星渺站起身。
{Who are you?}
{你是谁呀？}
Two little reporters nestle up to Xingmiao, one touching with its small hand a newly grown cheekbone on his face. Wherever its little hand goes, a faint glow shimmering with crystalline light flickers in and out of visibility.
两个小记者凑到星渺身旁，一个拿小手抚摸着他脸上多出来的一块脸颊骨，随着它的小手抚摸，那里若影若现地亮起莹莹辉光。
“I… I am…”
“我…我就是…”
Several people are shocked to find that Xingmiao’s voice is actually a little choked up. But in the end, he never says who he is.
几人吃惊的发现，星渺的声音竟然有些哽咽。但他到最后也未说出自己就是谁。
The other one flies to his head, curiously looking at him from left and right, and even taps the newly attached cranial bone piece with its small hand, producing a “hollow hollow” sound.
另一个飞到他的头上，好奇的左右打量，还拿小手敲了敲新进入头颅的骨片，发出“空空”声。
Snap snap, two crisp sounds, and the chains on the last two Divine Stones also snap and fall apart.
啪啪，两声脆响，最后两块神石上的锁链也断裂掉。
“The last two have been unsealed together as well!”
“最后两块也一起解除封印了！”
Luo Bin watches these two debris bones merging into the battered body.
洛宾看着这两块碎骨融入破败身躯。
“That fast?”
“这么快？”
Suddenly, the golden chains scattered on the ground swiftly tear through space, appearing beside that outstanding figure, integrating into the woman’s body.
忽地地上散裂开的金色链条迅速划破空间，出现在那道卓绝身姿旁，融入女人体内。
The little reporters suddenly scatter around, and the next second, Xingmiao zooms out wrapped in a big blanket, the giant blanket transformed from the veil draped like a cloak over its shoulders, floating and dropping down a dozen meters.
小记者们突然往周边散去，下一秒星渺嗖地裹着毛毯冲出，那轻纱化为的巨毯宛若披风搭在它的肩上，浮空坠下十数米。
It hovers in the high sky ahead, gazing down at the flickering figure below.
它悬浮在前方高空，注视着下方的摇曳人影。
“I’ve been waiting for you for a long time, yet you’ve always been afraid to show up. Now, you have finally come.”
“我等你很久了，你却一直不敢出现。如今，你终于来了。”
The woman’s face is cold and expressionless, “Xingmiao, do you really want to do this?”
女人脸上表情冷漠，“星渺，你真的要这样吗。”
A fierce qi emanates from her, like a mountain pressing straight toward the sky; just by standing there, it’s as if she becomes a world of her own.
她身上出现凌厉气息，宛如山岳直指苍穹，仅仅是站在那里，就仿佛自成一个世界。
The entire earth seems to prostrate itself at her feet.
整个大地都仿佛在她足下臣服。
“Yes, compared to the past, you have finally learned the secret techniques of the Meridian Weavers. It must have been hard on you, as a Pact Moon Emissary.”
“不错，比起曾经，你终于学会了融脉者们的秘技。作为契月使，真是难为你了。”
The woman’s voice suddenly turned hoarse as she said:
女人嗓音突然变得嘶哑地道：
“You still dare to bring up the past? If it’s about the past, you should return to my side, for us…”
“你还知道提起曾经？若提曾经，你就该回到我的身边，为我们…”
“Enough!”
“住嘴！”
Boom!
轰隆！
Yang Zicang only felt a blur before his eyes, and with a thunderous roar, energy clusters danced across the sky.
杨子藏只觉得眼前一花，一声巨响，天空上前道能量团飞舞。
In the heavens, within the radiant glow, the junior reporters gazed curiously at the figure ahead.
天际，光团内的小记者们好奇的看向前方的身影。
The cloak surged forward with a swoosh, the ground beneath the woman bulging upward, launching her into the sky in an instant as if ascending to the peak of an energy mountain range. With a flick of her finger, a brushstroke slashed down, forming the character for “death.”
披风唰地冲向前方，那女人脚下地面鼓起让她瞬息间出现在高处，仿佛攀登到了能量山脉的高峰顶端。手指轻弹，一道笔锋划下，写出了个“死”字。
The massive script hurtled toward Xingmiao’s figure, its ink-like traces winding around her like ribbons.
大字冲向星渺的身影，笔划痕迹如丝带缠绕向人。
Xingmiao gracefully appeared behind the woman, and as the latter turned her head, Xingmiao delivered a resounding oblique palm strike toward her skull.
星渺轨迹灵动的出现在女人身后，她转头瞬间，星渺带着爆鸣的一记斜掌砍向了她的头颅。
The cold-faced peerless beauty coldly stared down at the shattered skeletal remains.
脸色冷漠的绝色美人冷漠看向这残破的骨骸。
[You have truly betrayed me, you fiend.]
[你真的背叛我了，你这个魔灵。]
Hmm~
嗡~
The sky rippled out in concentric circles, and at the center, the angelic figure plummeted once again.
天际扩散出圆形波纹，中心点那道如同天使般的身影再次坠下。
“You can already cultivate your incarnated thought body. Sigh…”
“你已能修出身外念身。唉…”
Bang! As Xingmiao shattered the woman’s corporeal form, the chaining thought body descending from the sky slowly opened its eyes.
嘭！随着星渺将女人的身躯爆裂，那自天际坠下的念力身躯缓缓张开双目。
In her gaze, golden light spun slowly, radiating ring after ring of halos.
目光中，金色闪光缓缓旋转，扩散处一道又一道光圈。
{Ha—!}
{哈——！}
A churning explosion from the depths of the soul; everyone across the Frequency-Lost Land fell to the ground in agony.
来自灵魂的翻滚爆鸣，整个失频之地所有人齐齐痛苦倒地。
Xingmiao looked up with a glare, “How dare you!”
星渺仰头怒视：“你敢！”
{This is the New World we desired, this is my New World—here, all temporal sequences bend to my will.}
{这就是我们想要的新世界，这就是我的新世界，这里一切时序为我所用。}
Tens of streams of pure white light pierced through the gloomy clouds like sunlight.
数十道混白的光芒如同阳光刺破天际阴云。
{Xingmiao, I’ll give you one more chance: return to my embrace and become my Moon Angel!}
{星渺，再给你一次机会，回归吾之怀抱，成为本人的月之天使！}
Then, more rays of light struggled and tore across the heavens.
随后，更多的光线挣扎着划开苍穹。
Bang! Bang! Bang!
砰砰砰！
Across the land, countless creatures and monsters burst apart. The rings marked with numbers like 7Y, 1N, and 26R rose in unison, streaking like meteors and instantly teleporting onto her body.
大地各处，无数小型生物与怪物的身躯爆裂，那些携带着7Y、1N、26R等数字的圆环齐齐浮空，化为流星瞬移至她身上。
Xingmiao’s voice was heavy.
星渺声音很沉重。
“That little girl I once had to protect… she grew up able to become such a formidable powerhouse on her own. I’m truly relieved.”
“曾经需要我保护的小女孩，原来能够独自成长为这样的强者，我很欣慰。”
At that moment, the entire land was filled with cries of devastation.
一时间大地哀鸿遍野。
The broken, floating skeletons stared down at the earth with cracked skulls, their aura growing ever darker.
支离破碎漂浮的骸骨，用残破的头颅俯视大地，气息愈发阴沉。
{Still unwilling, huh.}
{还是不愿意吗。}
“Ha.” Xingmiao gave a cold sneer. “I’ve never lost control—you simply… forgot.”
“呵。”星渺冷冷一笑：“我从未失控，只是…你忘了。”
It gently raised a hand, and from all over, more rocks broke free from the earth to float on their own. Bang-bang-bang-bang, they shattered into dust, condensing into energy that formed fragmented bones, arcing across the sky as they gathered from over thousands of miles.
它的手轻轻一抬，大地各处更多的岩石自然悬浮离地而起。砰砰砰砰，它们粉碎成了灰烬，化为能量聚合为碎骨，划过长空跨越数千里聚集而来。
The land of lost frequencies began to quake, with countless fissures spreading like veins, as if it were about to shatter into pieces.
失频之地开始震动，无数裂缝绵延出现，像是要碎裂成块。
The editor-in-chief cast a cold, sweeping gaze downward:
主编冷漠的扫视下方：
{So you’re unafraid of the earth’s destruction.}
{你竟然不怕大地毁灭。}
“This mere corner of the world can indeed be destroyed. But ‘the future’ cannot become the past.”
“区区一隅之地，这里当然可以损毁。但‘未来’不能成为过去。”
Xing Miao, with his cloak trailing, surged straight upward, radiating a dazzling light.
星渺携带披风带起炫目光芒直刺而上。
Rumble!
轰隆隆！
After the loss of the sacred stone, violent earthquakes erupted across the world. Chasms appeared one after another, and mountains collapsed time and again. In an instant, the shelters spanning the earth swayed like ships in a storm; houses shattered, and rock walls crumbled with a thunderous roar.
失去神石后，世界各地爆发剧烈地震，一道又一道鸿沟出现，一座又一座山脉崩塌。一时间，遍布大地的各个棚区如同在风浪中摇摆，房屋破碎，岩墙轰然倒塌。
{Traitorous spirit who betrays its master! Die!}
{背叛主人的魔灵！去死！}
A white figure charged downward, engaging in fierce combat with Xing Miao.
白色身影冲向下方，与星渺剧烈交战。
“Get back to Wang Chong’s side now!”
“快回王翀身边！”
The phantom train hurtled back at breakneck speed.
幻影列车极速往回窜。
It could have reached its destination directly, but earthquakes were striking everywhere, and people clinging at the edges of fissures kept plunging into the abyss.
它原本能直接到达，但大地各处地震，裂缝边缘的人不断往地下掉。
“Help me!”
“救命啊。”
“Honey, where are you?” Heart-wrenching cries echoed across the wasteland.
“老公，你在哪儿？”撕心裂肺的喊声响彻荒原。
“Sigh,” Lou Bin let out a sigh, and Zuo Feixian looked up and said, “Things are still stable around the camp. We could actually take our time.”
“唉。”洛宾叹息，左非闲抬头道：“营地那边还算安稳，我们其实可以慢点。”
Yang Zicang said, “Save whoever we can.”
杨子藏道：“能救就救吧。“
A massive rift appeared ahead, with countless bursts of magma deep underground faintly casting their glow up to the sky. People who had just fallen into the deep pit were suddenly swallowed whole by a phantom creature—swoosh—clattering against the ground.
前方出现道大裂缝，大地深处无数岩浆光芒隐隐映照至天上。刚刚垂落进深坑的人突然被一道幻影怪物吞入腹中，嗙嗙当当摔了一地。
“Where am I?”
“我在哪？”
“Ah, am I dead!”
“啊，我死了吗！”
“Hey? This looks like the subway!”
“咦？这好像是地铁！”
The train car quickly filled with people. “What is this thing?”
车厢很快挤满了人，“这个是什么东西。”
“Oh my god, it looks like a special vehicle from the giant Party A’s cargo fleet.”
“天啊，像是大甲方货队的专车。”
“They probably collected the divine stones and gave us a lift while passing by to save us.”
“他们应该是收集神石路过顺手救了我们。”
A cacophony of hundreds of people filled the air; some were searching for their hats, others frantically calling out their children’s or relatives’ names within the crowd.
数百人闹哄哄的一片，有人找着自己的帽子，有人在人群中焦急叫着自己孩子或亲人的名字。
“This train is terrifying, like being back in the rush hour at 8 a.m.”
“好恐怖的车，像回到了早八点上班的时候。”
The train, shrouded in ghostly figures, quickly returned to the camp.
鬼影绰绰的列车很快回到营地。
The houses here had already become dangerous structures after the constant earthquakes, with quite a few trees toppled. Fortunately, there were no major cracks, and no one was injured.
这里的房屋已经在不断的地震中成为危房，树木倒塌不少，还好这儿没有大裂缝，人员没有伤亡。
“Hurry up and get on board.”
“快上来。”
Faced with the eerie, ghostly train, Xu Xiuchuan and others at the camp dared not linger and gritted their teeth as they stepped aboard, enduring the ominous atmosphere.
看着鬼气腾腾的列车，营地徐秀川等人不敢逗留，还是忍着阴森气息踏了上去。
Inside this carriage, countless phantom figures looked up at Xu Xiuchuan, Wang Chong, and the others. Lyu Zhi, whose broken limbs had already scabbed over, was already in poor spirits and, startled by this, immediately fainted.
这节车厢内，幻影绰绰的无数人抬头望向徐秀川与王翀等人，断肢已经结疤的吕志精神本就不佳，被这一刺激顿时昏了过去。
Rumble, rumble, rumble!
嗡隆隆隆！
The ground shook violently beneath them, as if cracks were constantly spreading and tearing apart.
地下剧烈抖动，似有裂缝在不断衍生撕裂。
Two figures in the sky fought like gods and demons, countless psychic bodies appeared in the air, and a vast army of skeletal remains shrouded the heavens.
天际两身影如同神魔交战，无数念力体出现在空中，骸骨军队铺天盖地。
They would be destroyed only to rise again, but each reemergence was accompanied by the burst of thousands of bodies on the ground, while halos carrying temporal sequences soared into the sky.
它们覆灭后又生起，但每一次出现都会伴随地上数千人的身躯爆裂开，携带时序的光环飞上天际。
Everywhere across the land, the young reporters were in utter disarray.
大地各处，小记者们慌乱无比。
{What should we do? The earth is about to be destroyed.}
{怎么办呀，大地要毁灭了。}
“The editor-in-chief sister is mean!”
{主编姐姐坏！}
Some of the little ones were already crying out of distress.
有些小家伙已经急得哭了出来。
Wherever something new appeared on the land, they were there, always carefree.
只要大地出现新鲜事就有它们的身影，它们一直无忧无虑。
Even a blooming flower would prompt them to record it, and they could lie on the soft petals, sleeping all day.
哪怕一朵盛开的花儿，它们都会出现记录一番，能趴在软软的花瓣上睡一整天。
But now, the land they loved was falling apart!
可此刻，它们喜欢的大地正在崩坏！
Countless precious plants were withering, weak creatures were dying, and humans of lower time-sequences were being killed as time-sequence reserves during the conflict.
无数珍贵的植物枯萎，弱小的生物正在死去，低时序人类也在交战中被当成时序储备而死亡。
“What should we do!”
{怎么办呀！}
“What should we do, heroes— please, heroes, think of something!”
{怎么办呀，名人们，名人们想想办法呀！}
The settlement construction teams could barely save themselves and had no clue what to do.
各大筑货队自身难保，他们根本不知道怎么办。
Flames raged everywhere across the wastelands; countless people were in despair, convinced that they wouldn’t survive the night.
荒原各处烈火熊熊，无数人绝望的想到，今夜恐怕难以活命。
Suddenly, the meditation-borne voices of two deep presences echoed across the land.
忽地，两道浑厚气息的心念声传遍大地。
“We’re still here.”
{还有我们。}
The two pairs of eyes, sources of these voices within the two driver towns, radiated countless twisted energy networks that spread across the land, connecting with the visible River of Oblivion streams, instantly speeding up the current.
两道目光的主人，两座枢纽镇内，无数扭曲的能量网络齐齐弥漫向大地各处，随处可见的忘川之溪与之相接，顿时流速变得加快。
“Oh, those two big lumps can talk!”
{呀，两个大疙瘩还会说话。}
“We are the town chiefs! Journalists, bring all your record-keeping pages!”
{我们是镇长！记者们，请拿出你们的所有记录册！}
Following the signal from the two driver towns, the glowing spirits inside the small light clusters quickly pulled out crumpled stacks of paper, curious as they held the white fragments in their hands.
随着两座枢纽镇的示意，小光团内精灵们刷刷掏出一叠叠皱巴巴的小纸张，它们好奇地拿着手中的白色碎屑们。
“And then?”
{然后呢？}
The little journalists asked in confusion.
小记者们疑惑道。
Two gazes fixed upon the sky, where the battle between Starry Vast and the Editor-in-Chief erupted in waves of fluctuations high above. Although people could not see their fight clearly, a terrifying aura spread layer after layer across the land.
两道目光注视向苍穹，星渺与主编的战斗在高空爆起道道波动，虽然人们看不清他们的战斗，但恐怖的气息一波接一波传遍地处。
{Send all the news manuscript paper to the Great Star, and have him deliver it to the Stabilizer of the Continent. Only then can we defeat the Editor-in-Chief!}
{把所有新闻稿纸给大明星，让他送给大地的稳定者，唯有这样才可能击败主编！}
The voice rang out across every region.
声音传遍各地。
{Daydreaming! Starry Vast, do you think I came here today to die? Unless you truly gather your entire body, you cannot kill me. I am no longer the little girl who used to follow at your heels! Today marks my first step into the New World!}
{痴心妄想！星渺，你以为我今日前来是送死的吗！除非你真的收拢全部身体，否则不可能击杀我。我已不是曾经跟在你屁股后面的小女孩了！今日就是我回归新世界的第一步！}
{All journalists of the New World, spring into action! Send all the basic manuscript paper to the Great Star!}
{新世界的记者们全部行动起来！将基础稿件纸全部寄给大明星！}
Hope arose amid the despair of the people.
绝望的人们迎来希望。
They saw countless orbs of light streaking across the sky, swiftly heading toward a certain place.
他们看到无数光团飞过天际快速赶往某个地方。
“Great Star?”
“大明星？”
Peoples across the land, raising their heads in trepidation: “But who is the Great Star?”
大地上仰头的各地之人心慌难耐：“但大明星是谁？”