第一百六十三章 昼与夜的碰撞
The ground rumbled like thunder racing through its veins; mountains collapsed and ten thousands tents rolled up in crimson smoke.
大地轰鸣，如雷霆走穴，山峦塌陷，万棚卷起赤烟。
The clock of time seemed to have leapt to doomsday.
时间的指针仿佛已跳到末日。
Frightened people nervously watched the countless streaks of light sliding across the dark sky.
惊骇的人们紧张看向黑暗天际滑动的无数光之轨迹。
“Who is the big star?”
“谁是大明星？”
“The one with the greatest fame, obviously!”
“当然是名气最大的人！”
“Who else could it be? The man shining across the entire Lost Frequency Zone tonight—who do you think it is? It must be…”
“还能是谁，今晚闪耀整个失频之地的男人你说会是谁！那肯定就是…”
The two hub towns shot beams of light like searchlights into the sky.
两座枢纽镇发出探照灯般的光圈射向天际。
The swiftly moving train felt the gaze of two eyes upon it.
快速跑动的列车感受到两道目光的注视。
[Who’s glaring at me.]
[谁在瞪我。]
{Based on your influence assessment from the past three years, without any fame-machine backing, you have been certified as a mega celebrity dazzling the two hub towns!}
{根据前三年的影响力评估，没有任何名气团队包装的你已被认证为闪耀两座枢纽镇的超级名人！}
[What?]
[什么？]
The train racing to save lives was a bit bewildered.
极速跑动救人的列车有点蒙圈。
{You are the most shining presence tonight.}
{你是今晚最闪亮的存在。}
{You have been certified as a Big Star!}
{你已经被认证为大明星！}
{You have gained the right to ascend!}
{你已获得上天的资格！}
Swoosh swoosh swoosh, vroom vroom!
嗖嗖嗖，咻咻！
The reporters’ notebooks surged densely toward the phantom train.
记者的记录册密密麻麻冲向幻影列车。
[I have been certified as a Big Star!]
[我已被认证为大明星！]
The train attained supreme honor.
列车获得了无上荣誉。
“Uh?”
“呃？”
Yang Zicang and the others stared dumbfounded at the countless small papers fluttering in like snowflakes. They were more like tiny snow bits, even dandruff.
杨子藏等人哑然地看向无数飞来的雪花般的小纸张。与其说是纸，更像是小雪花，甚至是头皮屑。
Teneous beams of light pierced the fragmented, sleepless night, casting pale gray pillars, as if daylight was about to break through the midnight barrier and appear directly!
道道细窄的光芒射穿支离破碎的无夜投下灰白光柱，仿如白昼即将突破午夜的闸轮直接出现！
{I, Ma Chao, am a Big Star?}
{我马超是大明星？}
“No time left, hurry up and board! Little Ma Chao!”
“来不及了，快上吧！小马超！”
The ghostly train, trailing light, crashed thunderously toward the fragmented, spot-like sky.
鬼影绰绰的列车带着光芒轨迹轰然撞向破碎般的光斑苍穹。
Carrying over a thousand people in several cars, this subway for the first time was packed full of humans, and for the first time, soared thousands of meters into the air.
几节车厢内带着上千人，这辆地铁第一次盛满了满满当当的人类，也是第一次飞上了数千米的高空。
“We’re, we’re flying.”
“飞，飞起来了。”
People piled densely inside the train craned their necks, peering through the hazy, translucent walls at the outside world. The shattered earth was strewn with dark red wounds, some places even churning with molten lava.
列车上密密麻麻叠在一起的人伸着脑袋，看向幽影般的半透明车身外。支离破碎的大地到处都是暗红的创伤，一些地方甚至熔岩翻滚。
But the next second, yellow sand whirled up, and the shattered skeleton army surged toward the train, tearing and hacking.
但下一秒，黄沙飞卷，残破的骷髅军团向着列车撕咬砍杀而来。
Inside the train, small pieces of paper burst forth with spreading energy, carving out a twisting energy pathway that sprawled across the inverted sky like a crooked maze.
列车内的小纸张们爆发出扩散的能量，开辟出一道曲折能量航线，它遍布倒扣的苍穹，就像弯弯扭扭的迷宫。
The shadow train weaved through it at the speed of light.
暗影列车如光一般穿梭在其中。
On the horizon, the editor-in-chief’s eyes shimmered with brilliant radiance, as if invisible blades were swinging in the air at the skeleton figure that kept dodging left and right. She turned her head to look into the distance, where a phantom train was rapidly approaching.
天际，主编双目闪耀出绚烂光泽，似有无形刀剑在空中挥砍那道不断左右腾挪的骸骨身影。她转头看向远处，一道幻影列车正在高速靠近。
{Come to die, huh!}
{来送死吗！}
She shouted loudly.
她高声喝到。
More skeleton troops emerged, chopping at the maze pathways in the sky.
更多骷髅军队出现，劈砍天际迷宫通道。
But though the pathway teetered on the brink of collapse time and again, it ultimately held firm.
但这通道虽数次摇摇欲坠，最终却坚挺了下来。
Whooosh—!
嘘呜~！
The train whooshed close, and the faces inside the windows of the train were filled with awe, like a tour group witnessing a divine battle up close.
列车唰地靠近，列车车窗内众人表情震撼，仿佛近距离看到神战的观光团。
Whoosh! Countless specks of starlight streaked through the compartments, gathering beside the editor-in-chief—they were the small pieces of paper.
嗖！无数星光点点穿过车厢出现在主编身旁，是那些小纸张。
They carried vast amounts of unknown energy, surging in and converging.
它们携带了大量未知能量涌现聚集。
In the moment of stunned hesitation as she gazed at them, suddenly a shadowy figure appeared behind her.
在主编看到它们的一愣神之际，突然她背后出现另一个星渺的身影。
“I am July Starshade, and you are Mengrui Haosha.”
“我叫七月.星渺，你叫梦蕊.浩沙。”
Starshade whispered in her ear.
星渺在她耳边道。
“Little Ruirui, as a lingering soul, you’ve done admirably well.”
“小蕊蕊，作为一缕残魂，你已经做得很好了。”
The woman’s body dragged afterimages, her back instantly becoming her front, facing this replica.
女人的身体拉动出残影，后背直接变成身前正对向这具复制体。
The model of a five-pointed star on her chest gleamed as a palm strike, carrying a force that tore everything apart.
她胸前五角星的模型闪耀，一掌挥出，带起撕裂一切的气息。
Xing Miao let out a soft sigh.
星渺轻轻叹息了声。
Just before this broken figure was shattered by her, Xing Miao pierced through its body with a single palm strike, but she herself was destroyed in an instant.
在这道残破身影被她击碎前，星渺一掌将她身躯刺穿，但自己也瞬间被摧毁。
The next moment, behind the flying editor-in-chief, the tattered skeletal remains of the replica appeared again.
下一霎那，飞出的主编身后又出现了复制体的残破骸骨身躯。
{Endless clones—this was the Glazed Mirror lineage I once possessed?}
{不断分身，这就是我曾经的璨镜血脉？}
Xing Miao did not respond to her, but instead spoke gently:
星渺未曾回复她，而是温柔道：
“Growing up as a lonely child all over again all these years, this long journey must have been exhausting. It’s alright; you can now peacefully depart.”
“这些年重新作为孤独的孩子长大，一路走来很累吧。没关系，接下来你可以安心离去了。”
The phantom train flashed by in a blur, not daring to linger even half a millisecond; the moment those pieces of paper flew out, it had already plunged directly into a state of mental power, racing towards “Boppoli Station” at breakneck speed.
幻影列车一闪即逝，它半毫秒都不敢停留，在那些小纸张出去的刹那它已经直接潜入念力状态，向着“波波利站”极速飞驰而去。
By Xing Miao’s skull, a multitude of blurry and chaotic illusions appeared, all dreamlike phantoms of otherworldly scenes.
星渺的头颅旁，纷繁的模糊幻像出现，全是梦幻泡影般的异世景象。
At the same time, snowflake-like papers wove into a silvery-white halo, floating above the woman’s head.
同时，雪花般的纸张交织成一道银白色光圈漂浮在女人的头顶。
The ring radiated a vast and mighty aura.
光环，荡出浩瀚威势。
{What is this!}
{这是什么！}
Beneath the dappled, drifting clouds, the woman looked up at the halo with a hint of fear in her gaze.
斑驳流云下，女人略带惊恐的看着头顶道。
Countless whispers and images began flooding the editor-in-chief’s mind.
无数低声呓语与画面开始出现在主编的脑海。
“These are our memories of the past.”
“这是我们曾经的回忆。”
Her memories and thoughts became chaotic, as if suddenly awakening to countless years of unknown recollections, delivering a tremendous impact to her mind and body.
她的记忆与思绪都出现混乱，就像突然觉醒了无数年的，毫不知情的记忆，给身心带来巨大冲击。
The broken skeleton gently embraced the injured woman.
残破骷髅轻搂住受伤的女人。
“It’s okay. You’ve only forgotten. Forgotten that incarnating the land was your own choice! Now, remember it all!”
“没关系，你只是忘了。忘了化身大地是你自己的抉择！现在，全部都想起来吧！”
{No, this isn’t right.}
{不，这不是。}
The air beside them suddenly boomed with a heavy sound.
旁边的空气突然轰地沉响。
A mountain-like figure charged over; beneath him was a black sedan crushed almost beyond recognition. It breached the etheric space, appearing in the high sky, curving toward them.
山岳般的身躯冲来，他屁股下是辆压得快看不见的黑色轿车，它突破以太空间出现在了高空，划着弧线冲来。
“Chief Editor! Get in the car!”
“主编大人！快上车！”
The woman’s chaotic gaze abruptly cleared; she fiercely shook her head, and her eyes emitted terrifying ripples, striking the person beside her.
女人迷乱的眼神突地清晰，她猛甩头颅双目发出恐怖波动轰击向身侧之人。
{That’s right, I am no longer her! So these memories aren’t mine—get lost!}
{没错，我早已不是她！所以这些记忆不是我的，滚！}
The moment she spoke these words, the halo-like ring of angelic light shattered silently.
说出这句话的瞬间，天使光环般的光圈无声破碎。
The papers instantly converged into a helmet-like white hat, enveloping the woman’s head.
纸张们瞬间聚拢成一道如同头盔般的白色帽子将女人头颅笼罩。
It was crisscrossed with ravines. Below, on the earth, tens of thousands of gloomy oblivion streams echoed the celestial channel lines, all turning white, shooting beams of light that connected the heavens and Earth!
它上面沟壑纵横，下方大地上，成千上万的暗沉忘川溪与天际的纹路通道遥相呼应，齐齐转变为白色，射出链接天地的光芒！
The heavens seemed to mourn.
天地似在悲恫。
Hazy historical phantoms reflected across the sky, entirely displaying her past.
朦胧历史幻影映彻天空，展现的全是她的过去。
{Ah!}
{啊！}
The radiance pouring back into the sky was like interlocking chains, trapping the woman who had entirely transformed into her psychic form.
倒射苍穹的光芒犹如交错的锁链，将完全转化为念力形态的女人给困住。
She struggled desperately, unleashing psychic phantom attacks against the light beams.
她快速挣扎，发动念力幻影攻击光芒。
Xingmiao suddenly appeared behind the charging Shanlishi, its head lightly tapping, and in an instant the burly figure of Shanlishi and the car beneath him exploded.
星渺徒然出现于撞过来的山力士背后，它的头轻轻一点，山力士的魁梧身躯与其屁股下的轿车就瞬间爆炸。
“Turning her body into a piece of land in the New World was her own choice. I am merely carrying out her orders. And the final command is to eliminate the remnant soul born from her attachment to the past.”
“身躯化为新世界的一片大地，是她做出的抉择。我只是在执行她的命令。而最后的命令，是消灭她对过去的执念所生的残魂之躯。”
{No! Xingmiao, are you truly abandoning old ties like this!}
{不！星渺，你真不顾旧情了吗！}
“I’m sorry, but you are not her. The naive Rui Rui believed the world could have a bright future, and I am the blade she left behind to sever the past.”
“很遗憾，你不是她，天真的蕊蕊相信世界有会美好的未来，我就是她留下的那把斩断过去的剑刃。”
The shattered skeleton, carrying apocalyptic energy, crashed toward the snow-white figure bound by the light beams of past memories.
残破骷髅携带毁天灭地般的能量撞向那道被过去记忆光束所束缚的雪白身躯。
In high-speed motion, several more bones teleported across vast distances to fly over, following closely behind its body, leaving trails of starlight-flecked afterimages.
高速移动中，又有数块骨骸瞬移般划破遥远距离飞来，紧紧跟在它身躯之后，带起星光点点的残影。
Boooooom!
轰隆！
A massive number of psychic phantom slashes struck the light beams, finally shattering them.
数量庞大的念力幻影砍击光束，终于将之击破。
In the cold, furious eyes of the woman retreating at extreme speed, ripples of starlight pulsed and shot forward.
极速后退的女人冷漠双目中，星光波纹高速闪动射去。
{I am the chief editor of all journalists! I am the true master of this land! I shall create a new legend!}
{我是所有记者的主编，我是这片大地真正的主人！我要绘制新的传奇！}
“Every person in the New World is their own chief editor, but neither of us is one.”
“所有新世界的人，都是他们的主编，唯独不是你我。”
The two moved swiftly through the air, one after another, like twin comets.
两人一前一后快速在空中移动，如同两道彗焰。
Crackling! Xingmiao’s body began to burn, emitting ethereal phantom flames.
啪啪！星渺的身躯开始燃烧，冒出飘渺的虚焰。
{What are you doing!}
{你要做什么！}
“The new future has no need for us; this obsession should fade away.”
“新未来不需要我们，这份执念该消退了。”
Xingmiao’s speed suddenly surged, and the two black-and-white figures converged together.
星渺的速度徒然暴涨，黑白的两道身影聚拢在了一起。
A blazing, dazzling white light erupted in the sky.
天上爆发炙白耀眼的光芒。
A hurricane-like storm burst forth from there, sweeping across the entire frequency-lost land. The overturned people lay on the ground, struggling to lift their heads and look up.
飓风般的风暴自那里爆发，席卷整片失频之地，被掀翻的众人趴在地上吃力抬头上望。
High in the sky, countless fragments streaked toward all corners of the land like meteors.
高空，无数碎片如流星般炸向大地各处。
A tattered cloth spun rapidly in the wind, carried far away by the gale.
一块破布在风中极速旋转着被风卷向远方。
The spirits within the small light cluster watched in panic.
小光团内的精灵们慌乱地看着这一切。
They suddenly felt a profound sadness, unable to explain why, as if they had lost a very dear relative.
它们突然感觉很悲伤，说不清楚到底是怎么回事，像是失去了很亲的亲人一样。
Yet, they clearly didn’t know that strange being.
它们明明不认识那个怪家伙。
Blocks of iron-gray, heavy bones with elegant white patterns fell like meteorites down to different parts of the land.
一块块铁石般的暗沉碎骨携带白色优美纹路，陨石般坠落向大地各处。
As they crashed to the ground, the River of Forgetfulness began to turn black again. The energy channels at the Hub City, connected to it, started to retract, and the terrifying cracks everywhere quickly healed.
随着它们的坠地，忘川溪开始重新转为黑色。与之相连的枢纽镇能量脉络也开始收回，各处的骇人裂缝快速愈合。
All figures in the sky vanished. Above the shattered clouds on the horizon, threads of sunlight slipped through but were swiftly covered by thick clouds again.
天上所有的身影都消失了，天际炸开的流云上方，落下丝丝缕缕的阳光又迅速被厚云覆盖。
It had dawned.
天亮了。
Whoosh~ Whoosh~
呼呼~~
Hoo~
呼~
The gradually calming wind swept across the barren, undulating land.
逐渐平息的风刮过荒芜起伏的地面。
The twin-tailed girl, staring at the sky by her limit, lost all strength and fell to her knees with a thud.
望着天际的双马尾少女失去力气，咚地跪在地上。
After a long while, the girl wiped her tearstains with her sleeve, picked up the Rubik’s Cube beside her, and followed the ruts, walking step by step alone toward the distant horizon.
许久后。少女拿袖子擦了擦泪痕，捡起身旁的魔方，顺着车辙，孤独地一步步走向远方地平线的尽头。

” 地上星 Ground Stars ” The End