那个“方形的圆圈”在我脑海中旋转的记忆仍然清晰可见。
….And then? What happened afterwards?
然后呢?然后呢？
What about the other companions?
其他的同伴呢？
⸢Do n't wo rry Kim Dok Ja.⸥
别担心，金道子
A voice I thought I could never hear again entered my ears. I shouted out in happiness.
一个我以为再也听不到的声音进入了我的耳朵，我高兴地喊了出来。
"The 4th Wall!"
“第四道墙!”
⸢Si len ce in the lib rary.⸥
现在在图书馆
This was definitely [The 4th Wall] that I remembered, that sly playfulness included. Separate from how happy I was, though, my puzzlement only grew even bigger, instead.
这绝对是我记忆中的(第四堵墙)，包括那种狡猾的嬉闹。然而，撇开我有多开心不说，我的困惑反而变得更大了。
Why was I inside [The 4th Wall] right now?
为什么我现在在第四道墙里面？
"Dok-Ja-ssi?"
“ Dok-Ja-ssi? ”
More voices could be heard coming from the darkness. They were from the <Kim Dok-Ja Company>'s companions.
从黑暗中可以听到更多的声音，是来自金道子连的同伴。
"Just where are we?"
“我们到底在哪里?”
"….I found a strange book here. It's called ⸢⸢Kim Dok-Ja and the mysteries of sex.⸥⸥"
“......我在这里发现了一本奇怪的书，叫做《金道子和性的奥秘》。”
"You should definitely not be looking at such things, Ji-Hye-ya."
“你绝对不应该看这些东西，智慧雅。”
"How about this one, then? ⸢⸢If they have their bibles, then Kim Dok-Ja has the Ways of Survival.⸥⸥"
“那么这个呢?如果他们有圣经，那么金道子就有生存之道。”
"You really want to read something like that?"
“你真的想读这样的东西吗?”
I thought I could hear Jeong Hui-Won and Yi Ji-Hye speaking to each other. And then, a pair of small heads popped out from a nearby mound of books as if they were moles.
我想我可以听到郑慧媛和易智慧在说话。然后，一对小脑袋从附近的书堆里冒了出来，好像它们是鼹鼠。
"Ahjussi!"
大叔
"Hyung!"
“嗨!”
It was Shin Yu-Seung and Yi Gil-Yeong. I could also see Han Su-Yeong walking towards us in the darkened view.
我还能看到韩素英在黑暗中朝我们走来。
"What a weird place this is. Is this that 'library' Yu Sang-Ah talked about before?"
“这地方真奇怪，这就是余相雅之前说的‘图书馆’吗?”
She pulled out a book from the shelf to toss it behind her. Meanwhile, Yi Hyeon-Seong standing behind her caught that and stuffed it inside his inner pocket.
她从书架上拿出一本书扔到身后。与此同时，站在她身后的李贤成抓住了这个，把它塞进了自己的内兜里。
"S-Su-Yeong-ssi! You shouldn't handle books so carelessly…. You don't even know what these things are!"
“S-Su-Yeong-ssi!你不应该这么粗心地拿书......你甚至不知道这些东西是什么!”
"Wowee, what's this! Sounds fun."
“哇，这是什么!听起来很有趣。”
Behind them, I spotted the unconscious Gong Pil-Du, Jang Ha-Yeong and Anna Croft lying on the floor. And finally, Yi Seol-Hwa checking for their pulses. At the very least, all of my companions that participated in the 'Final Scenario' were gathered here.
在他们身后，我看到昏迷不醒的龚弼都、张夏勇和安娜·克罗夫特躺在地板上。最后，李世华检查他们的脉搏。至少，我所有参与“最后一幕”的同伴都聚集在这里。
⸢N ot ev ery one.⸥
不是每个人
I got this rather bad premonition after hearing [The 4th Wall]'s voice.
听到[第四道墙]的声音后，我有了这种相当不好的预感。
I still couldn't see 'that guy' yet.
我还是看不到那个家伙。
….Could it be
会不会是？
⸢(Hahahaha! Yu Jung-Hyeok! I can smell him somewhere nearby! Did he finally show up here in order to become one with me?!)⸥
(哈哈哈！余正赫！我能在附近的某个地方闻到他的味道！他最终出现在这里是为了和我合为一体吗
A voice loudly reverberated out from within the deep darkness. It was obviously coming from Nirvana. And right next second, a dull impact noise rang out. The now-silent Nirvana's limp body rolled around on the floor, and then, a certain black combat boot trampled that poor sob's head.
一个响亮的声音从深深的黑暗中回荡出来。这显然是来自涅磐。就在接下来的一秒钟，一个沉闷的撞击声响起。现在寂静无声的涅槃疲软的身体在地板上滚来滚去，然后，一只黑色的战靴踩着那可怜的呜咽的头。
"….What an unpleasant space this is."
“...这是一个多么令人不快的地方啊。”
"Yu Jung-Hyeok."
“余正赫。”
Sparks were still faintly dancing around him as if he hadn't yet separated from the 'Secretive Plotter'. Since he's here too, who was it that couldn't come?
斯帕克斯仍然在他周围隐隐约约地跳着舞，好像他还没有脱离“秘密策划者”似的。既然他也在这里，谁不能来呢？
"….Constellations aren't here."
“星座不在这里。”
"What happened to everyone back on Earth?"
“地球上的每个人都发生了什么事?”
[The 4th Wall] evacuating us here could only mean that some sort of a problem had occurred in the outside world.
第四道墙把我们疏散到这里只能说明外面的世界发生了某种问题。
My heart was now growing icy cold. I recalled the [The 4th Wall], as well as the sentences above it, shattering into million pieces. What went wrong? Did the world perish because I tried to change the story?
我的心现在变得冰冷。我回想起第四道墙，以及上面的句子，粉碎成千万片。出了什么问题？世界毁灭是因为我试图改变故事吗？
It was then, [The 4th Wall] said something completely unexpected.
就在那时，[第四面墙]说了一些完全出乎意料的话。
⸢Ti me not mov ing be cau se not re ading not ima gin ing⸥
你不能走，因为你不能走，因为你不能走
Even before I could ask about the meaning of that, some creatures appeared first.
甚至在我可以问这是什么意思之前，一些生物首先出现了。
⸢(Have you finally broken the wall, the apostle of eternity and epilogue?)⸥ ⸢(…Such a day has indeed arrived before us.)⸥
(你终于打破了永恒和后记的使徒的墙壁了吗?)(...这样的一天确实已经在我们面前到来了。)
They were the librarians 'Devourer of Dreams' and 'Simulation'. I stared at them first before addressing [The 4th Wall].
他们是图书管理员“梦想的吞噬者”和“模拟者”，我先盯着他们，然后才向第四道墙发表演讲。
"Let me out of here. There's something I need to confirm."
“让我离开这里。有些事情我需要确认。”
That prompted the librarians to reply, instead.
这促使图书管理员作出了回应。
⸢(Even if it's you, you still won't survive by going outside. <Star Stream> no longer exists. Everything in that place has now come to a dead stop.)⸥
(即使是你，你也不可能靠出门生存。星流不再存在。那个地方的一切现在都完全停止了
Everything had stopped.
一切都停止了。
For sure, the Fables that could normally be heard over the wall couldn't be heard anymore. Instead, the noise akin to a giant spring winding up could be heard coming from somewhere. It was at once like the ticking of a watch's second hand, or even the sound of very consistent but slow, rhythmic typing of a keyboard.
可以肯定的是，通常可以听到的寓言隔着墙壁再也听不到了。相反，类似于一个巨大的弹簧缠绕的噪音可以从某个地方听到。这种声音就像是手表秒针的滴答声，甚至是键盘敲击时发出的连贯而缓慢的有节奏的声音。
"In that case, I'll go and meet the guy that'll wind the clock back."
“那样的话，我就去见那个能让时光倒流的人。”
⸢(….Do you really wish to go and meet the 'Most Ancient Dream'?)⸥
(你真的想去见那个“最古老的梦”吗?)
That being was at the final stop of all these stories. <Star Stream> might have been destroyed, but there was a question that needed to be answered still.
那个存在是所有这些故事的最后一站。星流可能已经被摧毁了，但是仍然有一个问题需要回答。
⸢Why did a world like this have to exist?⸥
为什么这样的世界一定要存在
I looked back to discover my companions making similar expressions to each other. Every one of us had their own questions they wanted answers for, and had certain ends they wanted to see. And in order to get there, there was something we definitely had to do first.
我回头一看，发现我的同伴们互相做着类似的表情。我们每个人都有自己想要的答案，也都有自己想要的结果。为了达到这个目标，我们必须首先做一些事情。
Yu Sang-Ah spoke up first.
余相娥先开口。
"Let's go together, Dok-Ja-ssi."
“我们一起去吧，多-佳-西。”
"Me too! I wanna go!"
“我也是!我想去!”
"I'm really curious about the epilogue you wanted to see, ahjussi."
“大叔，我真的很好奇你想看的收场白。”
"There, there. Let's not agonise about this, shall we? Who knows, maybe a really nice Dokkaebi is waiting for us there or something. If not, we can smack him around for a bit and make him more agreeable, too."
“好了，好了。我们不要为这件事烦恼了，好吗？谁知道呢，也许一个非常好的Dokkaebi正在那里等着我们或什么的。如果不是这样，我们也可以打他一顿，让他变得更好相处。”
As if to agree with that, Biyu added her own opinion.
似乎同意这一点，碧玉补充了她自己的意见。
[Ba-aht!]
[ Ba-aht! ]
It was around then that Yu Jung-Hyeok broke the silence he had been observing.
就在这个时候，俞正赫打破了他一直以来的沉默。
"Before that, do you even have a way to meet him? The wall might be destroyed, but the time flow of the outside world has stopped. If time isn't moving, Fables cannot move forward. It will be the same for us."
“在那之前，你有办法见到他吗？柏林墙可能会被摧毁，但是外面世界的时间流已经停止了。如果时间不流逝，寓言就无法前进。对我们来说也是一样。”
⸢(There are some places where time hasn't stopped.)⸥
(有些地方时间没有停止。)
Nirvana smiled and pointed to the floor.
涅槃微笑着指向地板。
Right. The time inside this 'library' hadn't stopped at all.
对。在这个“图书馆”里的时间根本没有停止过。
"Could that bastard be inside this library?"
“那个混蛋会在图书馆里吗?”
⸢(….That's not it. This library is also just another 'wall', you see. However, a new passageway has opened up after you have completed the story. Meaning, you can now cross over to the other side.)⸥
不是这样的。这个图书馆也只是另一堵墙，你看。然而，一个新的通道已经打开后，你已经完成了故事。也就是说，你现在可以穿越到另一个世界了。)
While saying that, Nirvana guided us somewhere. Somehow, I thought I knew where he was taking us. I recalled the cliff that spanned below the library.
说到这里，Nirvana引导我们到了某个地方。不知怎么的，我觉得我知道他要带我们去哪儿。我想起了横跨在图书馆下面的悬崖。
⸢This is the end of the library. The end of all stories.⸥
这就是图书馆的终结，所有故事的终结
The vast, bottomless pit. A valley laid out like the abyss itself.
巨大的，无底的深渊，一个像深渊一样的山谷。
It was the location I discovered back when I entered [The 4th Wall] for the first time.
这是我第一次进入[第四道墙]时发现的地点。
"….It's exactly that place."
“就是那个地方。”
I almost fell to the bottom there when I first stumbled in here. Back then, Nirvana told me that if I fell in there, I'd die for sure. He said that was 'beyond the wall'.
当我第一次在这里跌跌撞撞的时候，我几乎跌到了那里的底部。那时，Nirvana告诉我，如果我掉进去，我肯定会死。他说那是“长城之外”。
Nirvana asked me. ⸢(Kim Dok-Ja. Do you really wish to go over there?)⸥
Nirvana问我。(KimDok-Ja。你真的想去那里吗?)
I nodded my head.
我点了点头。
Then, Nirvana pulled at a rope hanging from the darkness. I thought something like a pulley was activating, then a small elevator-like thing slowly rose up from below.
然后，涅槃拉着黑暗中悬挂的绳子。我以为有什么东西像滑轮一样被激活了，然后一个像电梯一样的小东西从下面慢慢升起来。
⸢(Get on.)⸥
(上车。)
We all climbed aboard this elevator.
我们都爬上了这部电梯。
Then we were slowly lowered into the pit.
然后我们慢慢地被放进坑里。
[Exclusive attribute, 'One Who Looked into the Abyss', is initialising.]
[独家属性“深渊探索者”正在初始化。]
Finally, the answers I've been searching for was right before my eyes. Fables still remaining within me were getting agitated as well.
最后，我一直在寻找的答案就在我眼前。那些仍然留在我心中的寓言也开始变得焦躁不安。
Just how long did we climb down like this? We were eventually greeted by the sounds of the pulley stopping.
我们这样爬下去到底花了多长时间?我们终于听到了滑轮停止的声音。
I stepped foot on the darkness, only to be greeted by mouldy smell. The floor was slick and damp, too; almost like the remnants of a structure that hadn't been used for a very long time.
我走进黑暗，却闻到一股发霉的味道。地板又湿又滑，几乎像是一个很久没有使用过的建筑物的残骸。
The light from the lantern illuminated the front to reveal a faint line made up of yellowish blocks.
灯笼的光线照亮了前面，露出一条由黄色积木组成的模糊线条。
"Isn't this place…."
“这地方不是......”
Jeong Hui-Won muttered to herself. And right then, we heard the noise of something rushing towards us from the darkness past the yellow blocks. As a matter of fact, the darkness itself was shaking ominously now. It was a loud, explosive noise, as if a monster was madly dashing towards us.
郑慧媛自言自语道。就在这时，我们听到有东西从黑暗中经过黄色街区向我们冲过来的声音。事实上，黑暗本身现在正在不祥地摇晃着。这是一个巨大的爆炸性的声音，仿佛一个怪物正疯狂地向我们冲来。
A short while later, a pair of faint monstrous eyes appeared from the other side of the passageway.
过了一会儿，过道的另一边出现了一双模糊的怪眼睛。
"….Oh, my god."
“哦，我的上帝。”
Jeong Hui-Won muttered out, but didn't reach for her sword even after witnessing what kind of a monster it was. The rest of the companions reacted the same, as well. All because everyone knew exactly what that monster was.
郑慧媛喃喃自语道，但是在目睹了那是一个什么样的怪物之后，她还是没有伸手去拿她的剑。其他同伴的反应也是一样的。这一切都是因为每个人都知道那个怪物到底是什么。
⸢The beginning of all these stories.⸥
所有这些故事的开始
It was the subway.
是地铁。
<Episode 99. The most ancient dream (1)> Fin.
第九十九集。最古老的梦(1)鳍。
Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint Chapter 513 - The most ancient dream (2)
