I fly next to her;
我飞到她的身边；
I present her with my gift,
我捧出给她的礼物；
As soft to the touch as the mud in shallow sea.
摸起来像浅海的泥一样柔软……
Speaking of enjoyment, when this seed had departed from the home world, that world was still a place full of joy. But later, as the home world began to war against the fringe world, joy diminished. By now, more than ten thousand grains of time had passed. There wasn’t much joy to speak of on the home world or in this seed. The happiness of the past was recorded in classical songs, and singing those songs was another of the few joys left.
说到乐趣，在这粒种子从母世界起航时，那里还是一个充满乐趣的地方，但后来，自从母世界与边缘世界的战争开始后，乐趣就渐渐减少了。到现在，一万多个时间颗粒过去了，无论是在母世界还是在种子里，都没多少乐趣可言，古典时代的那些乐趣都写在古歌谣中，吟唱那些歌谣，也是现在不多的乐趣之一。
Singer did not complain much. Survival required so much thought and mental energy.
歌者没有太多的抱怨，生存需要投入更多的思想和精力。
Singer understood that what he did wasn’t important — it just filled in the pieces. But it had to be done, and the task was enjoyable.
歌者知道自己做的不是什么大事，拾遗补阙而已，但这是一件必须做的事，且有乐趣。
Examining the data was Singer’s job; judging the sincerity of the coordinates was Singer’s joy.
翻阅坐标数据是歌者的工作，判断坐标的诚意是歌者的乐趣。
Singer sang one of these classical songs as he reviewed the data.
歌者翻阅数据时正在吟唱着一首古歌谣：
A small piece of solidified time.
那是一小块凝固的时间。
Lovely markings are carved into time
美丽的条纹刻在时间上
Entropy increased in the universe, and order decreased. The process was like the boundless wings of the giant balance bird pressing down upon all of existence. But low-entropy entities were different. The low-entropy entities decreased their entropy and increased their order, like columns of phosphorescence rising over the inky-dark sea. This was meaning, the highest meaning, higher than enjoyment. To maintain this meaning, low-entropy entities had to continue to exist.
宇宙的熵在升高，有序度在降低，像平衡鹏那无边无际的黑翅膀，向存在的一切压下来，压下来。可是低熵体不一样，低熵体的熵还在降低。有序度还在上升，像漆黑海面上升起的磷火，这就是意义，最高层的意义，比乐趣的意义层次要高。要维持这种意义，低墒体就必须存在和延续。
I see my love;
我看到了我的爱恋；
Back to the coordinates. Many sets of coordinates flitted across space, like the matrix insects flitting across the sky of the home world. Picking up coordinates was the job of the main core, which swallowed all the messages passing through space: medium membrane, long membrane, light membrane, and maybe one day even short membrane. The main core remembered the positions of all the stars. By matching the received data against various map projections and position schema, it could pick out the coordinates of the messages’ origin. It was said that the main core could match position schema from five hundred million time grains ago. Singer never tried anything like that — it would be meaningless. In that distant age, the low-entropy clusters in space were rare and far apart, and had not evolved the hiding gene and the cleansing gene. But now — Hide yourself well; cleanse well.
回到坐标上来，空间中有许多坐标在穿行，如同母世界的天空中飞翔的矩阵虫。坐标拾取由主核进行，主核吞下空间中弥散的所有信息，中膜的、长膜的和轻膜的，也许有一天还能吞下短膜的。主核记着所有星星的位置，把信息以点阵方式与各种组合的位置模式进行匹配，识别出其中的坐标。据说，主核可以匹配五亿时间颗粒前的位置模式，歌者没有试过，没有意义。在那个遥远的时代，宇宙中的低嫡群落比较稀疏，也还都没有进化出隐藏基因和清理基因。而现在——藏好自己，做好清理。
As for any meaning higher than that, it was pointless to think about. Thinking about the subject led nowhere and was dangerous. It was even more pointless to think about the apex of the tower of meaning — maybe there wasn’t an apex at all.
至于这意义之塔的更高端，不要去想，想也想不出什么来，还有危险，更不用说意义之塔的塔顶了，可能根本没有塔顶。
Sincere coordinates followed certain patterns. For instance, a mass cluster of coordinates was usually insincere. But these patterns were all only heuristics. Judging the sincerity of coordinates effectively required intuition. The main core on this seed was incapable of this task, and even the supercore back on the home world could not do it. This was one reason why low-entropy entities had no substitute.
判断坐标的诚意有一些可遵循的规律，比如群发的坐标往往都没有诚意。但这些规律都是很粗略的，要想真正有效地判断坐标的诚意，主要靠直觉，这一点种子上的主核做不到。甚至母世界的超核也做不到，这就是低嫡体不可取代之处。
Out of all the coordinates, only some were sincere. Believing in insincere coordinates meant cleansing empty worlds. This was wasteful. And there were other harms besides. These empty worlds might be useful in the future. It was incomprehensible why anyone would send out insincere coordinates — they would get what they deserved someday.
但所有坐标中，只有一部分是有诚意的。相信没有诚意的坐标常常意味着清理空旷的世界，这样做浪费精力，还有一点点害处，因为这些空世界以后还可能用得着。无诚意坐标的发送者真是不可理喻，它们会得到报应的。
Singer had this skill, this intuition, but it wasn’t a gift or instinct; rather, it was something honed by the accumulated experience of tens of thousands of time grains. A set of coordinates seemed nothing more than a simple matrix in the eyes of the uninitiated, but to Singer, it was alive. Its every detail was expressive.
歌者有这种能力，这不是天赋或本能，而是上万个颗粒的时间积累起来的直觉。一个坐标，在外行看来就是那么一个简单的点阵，但在歌者眼中它却是活的，它的美一个细节都在表达着自己。
Just then, Singer noticed a sincere set of coordinates near the course of the seed. The set of coordinates was broadcast by long membrane, and even Singer himself couldn’t be sure what told him that the set of coordinates was sincere — intuition could not always be explained. He decided to cleanse it. He wasn’t busy, and the task wasn’t going to distract him from singing. Even if he got it wrong, it was not a big deal. Cleansing was not a precision task and didn’t require absolute accuracy. It also wasn’t urgent. He just had to get it done eventually. This was also why his position wasn’t prestigious.
正在这时，歌者看到了一个有诚意的坐标，就在种子航线附近。这是一个用长膜广播的坐标，歌者也不知道自己为什么断定它有诚意，直觉是说不清的。他决定清理一下，反正现在也没有更多的事情可做，这事也不影响他正唱着的歌谣。他判断错了也没关系，清理就是这样，不是一件精确的工作，不要求绝对准确。这也不是急迫的工作，早晚做了就行。这也是这一岗位地位低的原因。
For instance, how many reference points were taken? What was the method for marking the target star? And many other subtle details besides. The main core was able to provide some information, such as the historical records associated with this set of coordinates, the direction of the coordinate broadcast source, the broadcast time, and so forth. Together, these formed an organic whole, and what emerged in Singer’s consciousness was a sense of the coordinate broadcaster himself. Singer’s spirit crossed the chasm of space and time, resonated with the spirit of the broadcaster, and felt its terror and anxiety, along with other feelings unfamiliar to the home world, such as hatred, envy, greed, and so on. But for the most part, it was terror. Terror was what endowed a set of coordinates with sincerity. For all low-entropy entities, terror guaranteed existence.
比如取点的多少，目标星星的标注方式等等，还有一些更微妙的细节。当然，主核也会提供一些相关信息，比如与该坐标有关的历史记录，坐标广播源的方向和广播时间等。这些合而成为一个有机的整体，在歌者的意识中浮现出来的将是坐标广播者本身。歌者的精神越过空间和时间的沟壑，与广播者的精神产生共振，感受它的恐俱和焦虑。还有一些母世界不太熟悉的感情，如仇恨、嫉妒和贪婪等。但主要还是恐俱，有了恐惧，坐标就有了诚意——对于所有低熵体，恐惧是生存的保证。
Singer took a mass dot out of the seed’s magazine, then he turned to look for the star indicated by the set of coordinates. The main core guided his gaze, like a spear sweeping through the starry sky. Singer grasped the mass dot with a force field feeler and prepared to flick it. But then he saw the location indicated by the set of coordinates and the feeler relaxed.
歌者从种子仓库取出一个质量点，然后把目光投向坐标所指的星星，主核指引着歌者的视线，像在星空中挥动一支长矛。歌者用力场触角握住质量点，准备弹出，但当他看到那个位置时，触角放松了。
Of the three stars, one was missing. There was a white cloud of dust in its place, like the feces of an abyss whale.
三颗星星少了一颗，有一片白色的星尘，像深渊鲸的排泄物。
It’s already been cleansed. Nothing more to do.
已经被清理过了，清理过了就算了。
That was fast.
真够快的。
Singer put the mass dot back into storage.
歌者把质量点放回仓库。
He activated a main core process to trace the source of the mass dot that had killed that star. This was a hopeless task with almost zero chance of success, but required by established procedure. The process soon terminated, and like every other time, yielded no results.
他启动了一个主核进程来追踪杀死那颗星星的质量点的来源。这是个成功概率几乎为零的工作，但按照规程必须做。进程很快结束，同每次一样，没有结果。
Singer soon understood why the cleansing had happened so fast. He saw a slow fog in the vicinity of that destroyed world. The slow fog was about half a structure length away from that world. Seen by itself, it wasn’t apparent where the fog had come from, but when connected with the broadcast coordinates, it was obvious that the fog belonged to that world. The slow fog showed that the world was dangerous, which was why the cleansing had come so quickly. It appeared that there were other low-entropy entities with even sharper intuition than he; but that wasn’t strange. It was as the Elder said: In the cosmos, no matter how fast you are, someone will be faster; no matter how slow you are, someone will be slower.
歌者很快知道为什么清理来得这么快。他看到了那个世界附近的那一片慢雾，慢雾距那个世界约半个构造长度，如果单独看它，确实难以判断其来源，但与被广播的坐标联系起来，一眼就看出它是属于那个世界的。慢雾表明那是个危险的世界，所以清理来得很快。看来有比自己直觉更敏锐的低熵体。这不奇怪，正如长老所说，在宇宙中，你再快都有比你快的，你再慢也有比你慢的。
Every set of broadcast coordinates would eventually be cleansed; it was just a matter of sooner versus later. One low-entropy entity might think this set of coordinates insincere, but on the millions upon millions of low-entropy worlds there were billions upon billions tasked with cleansing — someone would think it sincere. All low-entropy entities possessed the cleansing gene, and cleansing was an instinct. Also, cleansing was a very simple thing. The cosmos was full of sources of potential power — one just had to trigger them to complete the task. It required so very little, and didn’t even delay singing.
一般来说，被广播的单个坐标最终都会被清理，只是时间早晚的问题。你可能认为这个坐标没诚意，但在亿万个低熵世界中有亿万万个清理员，总有认为它有诚意的。低熵体都有清理基因，清理是它们的本能。再说清理只是一件很简单的事，宇宙中到处都有潜在的力量，只需诱发它们为你做事就行了，几乎不耗费什么，也不耽误唱歌。
If Singer were patient, all sincere coordinates would eventually be cleansed by other, unknown low-entropy entities. But this was not a good thing for either the home world or the seed. Since Singer had received the set of coordinates and even glanced at the world pointed to by the coordinates, Singer had a connection to that world. It would be naïve to think of this connection as unidirectional. Recall the great law of reversible discovery: If you could see a low-entropy world, then that low-entropy world could also see you — it was only a matter of time. Thus, waiting for others to complete cleansing was dangerous.
如果歌者有耐心等待，诚意坐标最后都会被其他未知的低嫡体清理，但这样对母世界和种子都不利，毕竟他收到了坐标，还向坐标所指的世界看了一眼，这就与那个世界建立了某种联系。如果认为这种联系是单向的那就太幼稚了，要记住伟大的探知可逆定律：如果你能看到一个低墒世界，那个低嫡世界迟早也能看到你，只是时间问题。所以，什么事情都等别人做是危险的。
Among the “personal effects” was something that piqued Singer’s interest. It was a record of the dead world’s three communications with another location using medium membrane. Medium membrane was the least efficient communication membrane, also called primitive membrane. Most communications preferred long membrane, though it was said that even short membrane could be used to convey messages. If true, that would make the communicators akin to gods. But Singer liked primitive membrane. He thought primitive membrane possessed a simple beauty, symbolizing an age full of joy. He often turned primitive membrane messages into songs. He thought they sounded pretty, even if he didn’t understand them. Understanding them wasn’t necessary, however; other than coordinates, primitive membrane messages didn’t have much useful information. It was enough to enjoy the music.
“遗物”中有一样东西引起了歌者的兴趣，那是死者与另外一个坐标的三次通信记录，用的是中膜。中膜是通信效率最低的膜，也叫原始膜。长膜用得最多，但据说短膜也能用于传递信息，要真行，那就是神了。但歌者喜欢原始膜，他感到原始膜有一种古朴的美，象征着充满乐趣的时代。他经常把原始膜信息编成歌谣，唱起来总是很好听，当然一般听不懂什么，也没必要懂，除了坐标，原始膜的信息中不会有太多有用的东西。只感受其韵律就行了。
The next task was to put this now-useless set of coordinates into the data bank called the tomb. This was also required by established procedure. Of course, all other information having to do with the location needed to go into the data bank as well, just as personal effects were buried with the body, as was the custom on the home world.
下面要做的，就是把这个已经没用的坐标放人叫“墓”的数据库归档，这也是规程规定必须做的。当然与它相关的记录也要一起放入，就像把死者的遗物一起埋葬，反正母世界的习俗是这样。
But this time, Singer was able to understand some of the message, because some parts carried a self-decoding system! Although Singer was only able to understand a little, grasp an outline, it was enough for him to see an incredible history.
但这一次，歌者居然懂了一点这些信息。因为其中一部分竟带有自译解系统！歌者只能懂一点点，一个轮廓，却足以看到一个不可思议的过程。
First, the other location had broadcast a message via primitive membrane. The low-entropy entities of that world clumsily plucked their star — Singer decided to call them the Star-Pluckers — like ancient bards of the home world plucking the strings of the rough country zither, to send out the message. It was this message that contained the self-decoding system.
首先，由另一个坐标广播了一条信息，原始膜广播，那个世界（歌者把它叫弹星者）的低熵体笨拙地拨弹他们的星星，像母世界上古时代的游吟歌者弹起粗糙的墟琴。就是这条广播信息中包含自译解系统。
Singer had indeed heard of low-entropy worlds that possessed neither the hiding gene nor the hiding instinct, but this was the first time he had seen one. Of course, the three communications between these two would not reveal their absolute coordinates, but they did expose the distance between the two worlds. If the distance were fairly large, it wouldn’t be a big deal either; but the distance was very short, only 416 structures — the two worlds were practically on top of each other. This meant that if one world’s coordinates were exposed, the other would also be exposed — it was just a matter of time.
歌者确实听说过没有隐藏基因也没有隐藏本能的低嫡世界，但这是第一次见到。当然。它们之间的这三次通信不会暴露其绝对坐标，却暴露了两个世界之间的相对距离，如果这个距离较远也没什么，但很近，只有四百一十六个构造长度，近得要贴在一起了。这样，如果其中一个世界的坐标暴露，另一个也必然暴露，只是时间问题。
Although the self-decoding system was primitive and clumsy, it was sufficient to allow Singer to see that a subsequent message sent out by the dead three-star world followed the same encoding scheme — apparently an answer to the first message sent by the Star-Pluckers! This was already nearly inconceivable, but after that, the Star-Pluckers responded again! Interesting. Very interesting!
虽然那个自译解系统也是很笨拙很原始的东西。但足以使歌者把死者随后发出的一条信息的文本模式与之进行对比，很显然是回答广播信息的。这已经很不可思议了，但先前发广播的弹星者居然又回答了。很有意思，很有意思！
This was how the Star-Pluckers’ coordinates were revealed.
弹星者的坐标就这样暴露了。
Singer thought that perhaps he had been wrong. The Star-Pluckers must have possessed the hiding gene. They obviously had the cleansing gene, so it was impossible that they didn’t also possess the hiding gene. But like most coordinate broadcasters, they didn’t have the ability to cleanse on their own. Interesting. Very interesting.
歌者认为刚才自己想错了，弹星者还是有隐藏基因的，因为它有清理基因，不可能没有隐藏基因。但像所有坐标广播者一样，它自己没有清理的能力。1很有意思。很有意思。
Why did whoever cleansed the dead three-star world not also cleanse the world of the Star-Pluckers? Many possibilities. Perhaps they hadn’t noticed these three communications — primitive membrane messages often didn’t get much attention. But given the millions upon millions of worlds out there, someone would have noticed — Singer was just one who did. Even without Singer, some other low-entropy entity would have noticed them; it was just a matter of time. Or perhaps they had noticed them, but decided that a low-entropy group that didn’t possess the hiding gene wasn’t much of a threat, and cleansing them was more trouble than it was worth.
为什么清理死者的低熵体没有清理弹星者？原因很多。可能它们没有注意到这三次通信，原始膜信息总是不引人注意的。但亿万个世界中总会有注意到的，歌者就是一个。其实如果没有歌者，也会被其他低墒体注意到，只是时间问题。也许它们曾注意到过，但没有隐藏基因的低嫡群落威胁不大，嫌麻烦。
Nine time grains after the first three communications, another record appeared: The Star-Pluckers plucked their star again to send out another broadcast… a set of coordinates! The main core was certain that it was a set of coordinates. Singer looked for the star indicated by the coordinates and saw that it had also been cleansed, about thirty-five time grains ago.
在那三次通信过去九个时间颗粒以后，又出现一条记录，弹星者又拨弹他们的星星广播了一条信息，这……居然是一个坐标！主核确定它是坐标。歌者转眼看看那个坐标所指的星星，发现它也被清理了，大约是在三十五个时间颗粒之前。
At least until they got killed.
至少在死前是这样。
But that would be a mistake, a terrible mistake! Broadly speaking, if low-entropy entities like these Star-Pluckers really didn’t have the hiding gene, then they would not be afraid of exposing their own presence, and they would expand and attack without fear.
但大错特错！泛泛来说，假使弹星者真的没有隐藏基因，它就不怕暴露自己的存在，就会肆无忌惮地扩张和攻击。
But they hadn’t. Maybe they didn’t have the ability? But more than sufficient time had passed from the time they could pluck their star to send out a primitive membrane message for them to possess this ability.
也许他们没有这个能力？但从它已经能够拔弹星星发出原始膜广播看，这段时间足够它拥有这个能力。
However, as applied to this particular case, the situation was more complicated. The first three communications were followed nine time grains later by the coordinate broadcast. Then, sixty time grains after that, there was another long-membrane coordinate broadcast from somewhere else, pointing at the dead three-star world. The chain of events painted an uneasy picture, a picture that indicated danger. The cleansing against the dead three-star world had happened twelve time grains ago, so the Star-Pluckers must have realized that their own position had been revealed. Their only choice was to shroud themselves in slow fog so that they would appear perfectly safe and no one would bother them.
但具体到这一个，更复杂一些。前面的三次通信，加上又一次的坐标广播，再到六十个时间颗粒后，对死者的那次来自别处的长膜坐标广播。这一连串事件构成了一个不祥的图景，昭示着危险。对死者的清除已经过去了十二个时间颗粒。弹星者应该意识到自己的坐标已经暴露，那此时1以上内容见《三体》及《三体II·黑暗森林》唯一的选择就是把自己裹在慢雾中，让自己看上去是安全的，那样便没人会去理他们。
“What are you doing?” asked the seed’s Elder. “The big eye is busy.”
“你干什么？大眼睛现在很忙。”种子的长老说。
“I’d like to take a closer look at one of the low-entropy worlds.”
“有一个低摘世界，我想近些看看。”歌者回答。
Singer gazed at the world of the Star-Pluckers. It was an ordinary star that had at least a billion more time grains of life left. It possessed eight planets: four giant liquid planets and four solid ones. Singer’s experience told him that the low-entropy entities who had sent out the primitive membrane broadcast lived on one of the solid planets.
歌者把目光投向弹星者，看到那是一顺很普通的星星，至少还有十亿时间颗粒的寿命。它有八颗行星，其中四颗液态巨行星，四颗固态行星。据歌者的经脸，进行原始膜广播的低摘体就在固态行星上。
Singer activated the process for the big eye — he rarely did this; he was exceeding his authority.
歌者启动了大眼睛的进程，他很少这么傲，这是越权行为。
If that was so, that made the Star-Pluckers very dangerous; far more dangerous than the dead world.
如果是后者，那弹星者极其危脸，比死者要危险许多。
Perhaps they didn’t want to shroud themselves.
也许它只是不想这么做。
“I’m just curious.”
“只是好奇。”
Hide yourself well; cleanse well.
藏好自己。做好清理。
“Your job doesn’t require close-up examinations.”
“你的工作，远远看一眼就足够了。”
Singer didn’t persist in his request. The cleansing agent had the lowest position on the seed. Everyone thought of him contemptuously, thought of his work as easy and trivial. But they forgot that coordinates that had been broadcast often indicated far more danger than the vast majority who kept themselves well hidden.
歌者没再继续请求，清理员是种子中地位最低的岗位，总是被轻视，认为这是容易做的琐碎工作。轻视者们却忘了，被广播的坐标往住都是危脸的，比那些隐截的大多数更危险。
“The big eye has to observe more important targets. There’s no time for your curiosity. Go back to doing your job.”
“大眼睛有更重要的目标要观测，没时间满足你的好奇，做你的事去吧。”
“I need a dual-vector foil for cleansing.”
“我需要一块二向箔，清理用。”歌者对长老说。
The only thing left was cleansing. Singer took a mass dot out of the magazine again, then realized that he couldn’t use a mass dot to cleanse the Star-Pluckers. Their planetary system had a different structure than the dead world’s system: it possessed blind corners. Using a mass dot might leave something behind, thereby wasting effort. He needed to use a dual-vector foil. However, Singer didn’t have the authority to retrieve a dual-vector foil out of the magazine; he had to ask the Elder for approval.
剩下的事找就清理了，歌者再次从仓库中取出那个质量点。他突然想到清理弹星者是不能用质量点的，这个星系的结构与前面己死的那个星系不同，有死角，用质量点可能清理不干净，甚至白费力气，这要用二向箔才行。可是歌者没有从仓库里取二向箔的权限，要向长老申请。
The dual-vector foil drifted in front of Singer. It was sealed in its package, crystal clear. Although it was an ordinary object, Singer liked it a lot. He didn’t like the expensive tools too much; they were too violent. He liked the unyielding tenderness displayed by the dual-vector foil, a kind of aesthetic that could turn death into a song.
二向箔悬浮在歌者面前，是封装状态，晶莹剔透。虽然只是很普通的东西，但歌者很喜欢它。他并不喜欢那些昂贵的工具，太暴烈，他喜欢二向箔所体现出来的这种最硬的柔软，这种能把死亡唱成一首歌的唯美。
“Permission granted,” said the Elder.
“给。”长老立刻给了歌者一块。
Yet Singer felt a bit uneasy. “Why did you give it to me without so much as asking a question?”
但歌者有些不安，“您这次怎么这样爽快就给我了？”
“It’s being used everywhere in the cosmos.”
“宇宙中到处都在用。”
“Yes, that is true. But in the past, we’ve always been restrained. Now –“
“是，到处都在用，可我们以前还是多少有些节制的，现在……”
“But if we make too much use of this –“
“可这东西如果用得太多了，总是……”
“Have you heard something?” The Elder began to riffle through Singer’s thoughts, and Singer shuddered. Very quickly, the Elder found the rumor in Singer’s mind. It wasn’t a great sin — the rumor was an open secret on the seed.
“你是不是听到什么了？”长老在歌者的思想体中翻找起来，让歌者一阵战栗。长老很快找到了歌者听到的传说，这也不是什么罪过，都是种子上公开的秘密。
“It’s not like this is very costly.”
“这又不是什么贵重东西。”
If the rumor was true, then it was a great sorrow. Singer couldn’t imagine such a life. On the tower of values, survival ranked above all. When survival was threatened, all low-entropy entities could only pick the lesser of two evils.
如果真是这样，那是莫大的悲哀。歌者无法想象那种生活，在意义之塔上，生存高于一切，在生存面前，宇宙中的一切低墒体都只能两害相权取其轻。
The Elder did not answer, which was also an answer.
长老没有回答，也许是默认了。
It was a rumor about the war between the home world and the fringe world. Before, news about the war had been frequent, but then the reports stopped, indicating that the war wasn’t going well, perhaps even heading into a crisis. But the home world couldn’t coexist with the fringe world. The fringe world had to be destroyed, lest the home world be destroyed by it. If the war couldn’t be won, then…
是关于母世界与边缘世界的战争，以前不断有战报传来，后来就没有了。说明战事不顺利，甚至陷入危机。但母世界与边缘世界不可能共存，必须消灭边缘世界，否则自己将被毁灭。如果战争无法取得胜利，只能……
“Has the home world decided to transform into two dimensions?” Singer asked. Of course, the Elder already knew the question.
“是不是母世界已经准备二向化了？”歌者问，其实长老已经知道了他的问题。
She covers her body with time,
她把时间涂满全身，
Lovely markings are carved into time,
……时间上有美丽的条纹，
Singer removed these thoughts from his organ of cogitation. These were not thoughts he should have, and he was only going to be uselessly troubled by them. He tried to remember where he had stopped in his song. It took a while before he found his place. He continued to sing:
歌者把这些想法从思想体中删除了，这不是他该想的，这是自寻烦恼。他现在要想的是刚才的歌唱到什么地方了，想了好长时间才想起来，他接着唱：
In our eyes, the stars appear as ghosts;
我们眼中的星星像幽灵；
As soft to the touch as the mud in shallow sea.
摸起来像浅海的泥一样柔软。
And pulls me along to fly to the edge of existence.
然后拉起我飞向存在的边缘。
This is a spiritual flight:
这是灵态的飞行；
In the eyes of the stars, we appear as ghosts.
星星眼中的我们也像幽灵。
As he continued to sing, Singer picked up the dual-vector foil with a force field feeler and carelessly tossed it at the Star-Pluckers.
歌声中，歌者用力场触角拿起二向箔，漫不经心地把它掷向弹星者。
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