╗ ╚ 【書名】：金剛：骷髏島系列（全2部曲） 【作者】：Matthew Costello / Will Murray 【類型】：電影原著、電影改編小說 【簡介】： 【King Kong 金剛】系列二部曲 —— THE POUNDING OF THE DRUMS, the chanting, the yelling filled the night air. 鼓聲的敲擊、誦經聲、呼喊聲充滿了夜空。 Flickering torches surrounded a young girl, the flames that seemed to move in time to the chants, to the endless pounding. 搖曳的火把圍繞著一名年輕女孩，火焰的跳動似乎與人們的吟唱、那無休止的敲擊聲同步。 …… …… She shook—her body shivering, wriggling as she dangled, and they raised her high, higher…to her fate. 她不停地顫抖著——身體不停抽搐、扭動，而那些人則將她越吊越高……走向她的命運。 To her doom. 她的末日到了。 ＊ It began when the island shook. The island shook, rocking the huts, sending young children falling to the sand. 一切始於島嶼的震動。島嶼不斷晃動，小屋隨之搖晃，年幼的孩童們被震得跌倒在沙地上。 A warning and a demand. 一項警告與一項要求。 And now it was time to give someone to…Kong. 現在，是時候把活祭品交給……骷髏島的王——Kong了。 Others huddled quietly in their huts, the ones who were safe. They would hear the pounding drums, the strange words. Only waiting until it was over, and peace would return. 其他人則安靜地待在自己的小屋裡，那些還算安全的人。他們能聽到震天的鼓聲，以及那些陌生的語言。他們只願等待一切結束，讓和平重新降臨。 Then today, the choosing began. 今天，選擇的過程正式開始了。 All the women of the village standing, waiting. 村裡的所有婦女都站著等待著。 And the strange woman looked at the line of young women, searching for the right one. 那個奇裝異服的老女人環顧著一排年輕女子，似乎在尋找合適的人選。 Then—suddenly—the old woman walked to this young girl, and with a single simple gesture it was done. 然後——突然間——那位白髮老嫗走向了這位年輕女孩，只用了一個簡單的動作，一切都完成了。 They took her. And the day of horror began, which would lead inevitably to a night even more unimaginable. 他們帶走了她。恐怖的一天開始了，而這注定會引向一個更難以想像的夜晚。 They moved her closer, this dangling girl, right to the stone wall, to the mammoth barrier. 他們把那個懸掛著的女孩拉得更近了，直接拉到石牆旁，那道巨大的障礙物旁。 Sloping up, curving in. This wall that protected them, this wall that separated them. The giant stone faces looked at her, so much larger than a person, terrifying in their strange, twisting faces. The wall was now so close that the girl could almost touch it—if her hands were free. The torches below became smaller, the men all looking up, the sound of their chanting finally fading. 逐漸向上傾斜，又蜿蜒曲折。這堵牆曾保護著他們，同時也將他們分開。那些巨大的石頭面龐凝視著她，比人類的體型大得多，那怪異而扭曲的形狀令人不寒而慄。現在，那堵牆已近在咫尺，如果她的雙手沒有被綁住的話，幾乎可以觸碰到它。下方的火把越來越小，那些男人都抬頭望著上方，他們的吟唱聲也逐漸消失了。 The girl’s eyes closed for a moment; the drink they gave her made it hard to keep her eyes open. 女孩的雙眼閉上了一會兒；他們給她喝的東西讓她難以保持眼睛睜開。 And one word rose above all others, clear, loud—Kong! 其中有一個詞格外突出，清晰而響亮——巨獸的咆哮——剛！ Then over and over…Kong…Kong…Kong. 巨獸的咆哮不斷重複著……剛……剛……剛。 No girl ever went to the other side of the wall and returned. And for the others, life on the other side of the wall would continue—until once more the island shook, and it would all begin again. 從沒有女孩能夠穿過那堵牆，然後再回來。對於其他人來說，牆那邊的生活會持續下去——直到島嶼再次震動，一切又重新開始。 Kong…Kong…Kong! 剛…剛…剛！ And then the pallet stopped and the girl stopped going up. New sounds now—noises, ropes and wood being moved. Her body shook crazily, rocking left and right, but still suspended. 然後，滾盤停了下來，那個女孩也不再上升了。此時傳來了新的聲音——有繩子被拉動、木頭被移動的聲音。她的身體劇烈地顫抖著，不斷左右搖晃，但仍然懸在空中。 Until, the rocking stopped, and then the pallet started down slowly. 直到搖晃停止，滾盤才慢慢向下移動。 Her descending body passed the leaders gathered on the wall, looking at her, their mouths bellowing the ancient words. Chanting so loudly as if that might hurry the pallet on its way. 她下降的身體從聚集在牆壁旁的領袖們身旁經過。那些領袖們注視著她，口中呼喊著古老的咒語。他們的呼喊聲如此之大，彷彿這樣就能讓那個擔架更快地被送下去。 Down, now on the other side of the wall. The only light, faint, barely reaching down to the chasm…the torches atop the wall. The lights from the village completely cut off, vanished. The sound of the villagers now muffled, cut off by the massive wall. 往下，現在已經來到牆的另一側了。唯一的光源很微弱，幾乎照不到深淵的底部……只有牆頂上的火把發出光亮。村莊裡的燈光已經完全消失不見了。村民的聲音也被高大的牆壁阻隔，聽不到了。 And then she looked in the other direction. 然後，她把目光轉向了另一個方向。 Into the darkness of the island, the hidden jungle with its mountains, and trees, and secrets. 進入島上的黑暗之中，那片隱藏著山脈、樹木與各種秘密的叢林。 Some of the nearby trees and giant vines caught the scant light. But beyond them, nothing of the dark, almost black jungle was visible. 附近的幾棵樹和巨大的藤蔓捕捉到了些許光線。但在它們的後方，那片漆黑、幾近純黑的叢林則完全看不見。 They kept lowering her, the men above her watching, studying her dangling body, its steady fall. 他們不斷將她往下放，上方的男人們則在一旁觀察著，仔細看著她懸掛著的身體，以及那逐漸下降的過程。 Until—it finally came to a halt. 直到——它終於停了下來。 She was on ground, on a stone platform, suspended near the edge of the black jungle. Nothing visible to her but the horrible wall on one side, and the terrible darkness on the other. 她站在地面上，一個石頭搭建的平台上，懸掛在黑色叢林的邊緣附近。她什麼也看不見，只有一側是可怕的牆壁，另一側則是濃重的黑暗。 When suddenly the chanting, the drums, stopped. 突然間，所有的吟唱和鼓聲都停止了。 The old woman appeared atop the wall and said more words. Then all was quiet. The girl turned as if cocking her ears, as if…listening for sounds close by, sounds from those trees, from the towering plants. 白髮老嫗出現在牆上，又說了幾句話。然後，一切又恢復了平靜。女孩轉過身，似乎在豎起耳朵聆聽著周圍的聲音——那些來自樹木、來自高大植物的聲音。 Sounds that might be close to her. 聽起來像是她附近的聲音。 Then from above, that single word again from the woman, her voice so strong. 然後，從上方傳來那個女人說的同一個詞，她的聲音如此有力。 Kong! 剛！ Followed by a sound that dwarfed all others, the low rumble of a giant metal gong, smashed, once, then again, then again… 緊接著是一聲遠超其他所有聲音的巨響：那是一口巨大的金屬鑼被敲擊的聲音，一次又一次地被敲擊著…… Silence. 死寂。 The girl’s head turned again, facing the jungle. 女孩再次轉過頭，面朝叢林。 She was breathing fast, the air bellowing in and out, as if trying to store oxygen for whatever would happen next. 她呼吸急促，空氣不斷地呼進呼出，似乎是在為接下來可能發生的事情儲存氧氣。 Silence. 死寂。 Then, in the distance, clearly from so far away. Far away, yet, deep, powerful. 然後，在遠方，雖然距離如此遙遠。但那聲音依然清晰可聞，充滿力量。 A roar. In answer. 一聲怒吼。作為回應。 It was coming. 牠就要來了。 Kong was coming. 是Kong！［金剛］牠就要來了。 卷1介紹： King Kong: The Island of the Skull 金剛：骷髏島 ——Matthew Costello 著 250-1.jpg (43.75 KB, 下載次數: 0) 2026-5-4 13:22 上傳 Entrepreneur, adventurer and filmmaker Carl Denham is struggling to make a name for himself in the entertainment industry. 企業家、冒險家及電影製作人卡爾·丹納姆正努力在娛樂圈闖出名號。 A charismatic man with a natural sense of showmanship and an appetite for greatness, he is determined to succeed against all odds. 他是一位有魅力、天生的表演感與渴望卓越的人，決心逆境中成功。 Then he has what appears to be an extraordinary stroke of good fortune. 接著他似乎遇到了非凡的好運。 A map falls into his hands that reveals the existence of a mysterious, uncharted island – a world unknown to civilization, which may hold the key to the fame and fortune he so desperately seeks. 一張地圖落入他手中，顯示著一座神秘且未被繪製的島嶼——一個文明未知的世界，或許藏有他渴望的名聲與財富的關鍵。 ＊ |
