╗ ╚ 【書名】：The X-Files（X 檔案系列） 【作者】：Maberry, Jonathan喬納森‧馬伯里/ Anderson, Kevin J.安德森·凱文 J 【類型】：美劇原著、驚慄、懸疑 【簡介】： [yt]pVzpu8--_zA[/yt] The lab was less than a mile away as the crow flies, but with the winding roads, fences, speed bumps, and angled driveways, the drive seemed to take forever. By the time Mulder got through the security gate, McKean had just discovered one of his guards knocked out cold and missing his weapon. The rest of the guards were fanning out across the grounds, looking for the intruder. Mulder joined them, working his way through the wooded area at the rear of the facility. He had just spotted a second guard lying on the ground, unconscious and unarmed, when he felt the touch of cold steel against the back of his neck. 實驗室直線距離不到一英里，但由於道路蜿蜒曲折，還有圍欄、減速帶和傾斜的車道，開車似乎永遠到不了。當穆德終於穿過安全門時，麥基恩剛發現一名警衛被打暈，武器也不見了。其餘警衛正分散在園區各處搜尋入侵者。穆德也加入了他們的行列，穿過設施後方的樹林。他剛發現另一名警衛躺在地上，昏迷不醒，身上也沒有武器，就感到後頸被冰冷的鋼製武器抵住了。 “Still have a few tricks up my sleeve,” said Turner’s voice, behind him. “Hands in the air,” 「我還有些絕招沒使出來呢，」特納的聲音從他身後傳來。 「舉起手來。」 Mulder put up his hands. 穆德舉起了雙手。 “You know I’m trying to do the right thing, here, don’t you Mulder?” 「你知道我這麼做是為了做正確的事，對吧，穆德？」 “I believe you think you’re doing the right thing,” 「我相信你認為自己做的是對的。」 Turner patted Mulder down and took his gun. “Okay, you can turn around now, if you want,” 特納搜了搜穆德的身，拿走了他的槍。 「好了，如果你願意的話，現在可以轉身了。」 Mulder did. “You know, the other guards will be coming through here any second. There’s no way out for you,” 穆德照做了。 「你知道，其他守衛隨時都會衝過來。你沒有出路了。」 Turner motioned with the barrel of the shotgun for Mulder to walk toward the building. “That’s okay,” he said. “We’re not going out, we’re going in.” He held up the guard’s security tag. “You got to love campus security. The most powerful technology in the history of mankind and they give it the same protection as the student bookstore,” 特納用霰彈槍槍管示意穆德朝大樓走去。 「沒問題，」他說，「我們不出去，我們進去。」他舉起保全的證件。 「真讓人佩服校園安保。人類歷史上最強大的科技，他們卻只給它和學生書店一樣的保護。」 Through the darkness, Mulder could see a blank metal door with a dim yellow light bulb overhead and a green LED glowing beside it. 透過黑暗，穆德可以看到一扇空白的金屬門，門上方有一盞昏暗的黃色燈泡，旁邊還有一個綠色的 LED 燈在發光。 “Gruber lives just a few miles from here,” Turner said as they marched toward the door. “I thought about just killing him. That would end this whole thing, too, and he deserves it, you know? Or he will. But technically, he’s still an innocent. Plus, I can’t help but think that the more you mess with time, the more messed up it gets. And if I can undo some damage instead of creating more of it, that’s probably what I should be doing,” 「格魯伯就住在離這裡幾英里遠的地方，」特納一邊說著，一邊和他們走向門口。 「我曾經想過乾脆殺了他算了。那樣也能結束這一切，而且他罪有應得，你知道嗎？或者說，他終究會得到報應。但嚴格來說，他仍然是無辜的。再說，我總覺得你越是乾預時間，時間就會變得混亂。如果我能彌補一些傷害而不是製造更多傷害，那才是我應該做的。」 As they approached the door, Turner reached around Mulder and swiped the ID card through the slot. The door clicked open and they entered a brightly lit corridor with white concrete walls and a white tile floor. 當他們走到門口時，特納繞過穆德，將身分證刷入了門鎖。門咔噠一聲打開，他們走進了一條燈火通明的走廊，走廊兩旁是白色的混凝土牆壁和白色的瓷磚地面。 “You don’t have to do this,” Mulder said. “If what you’re saying is true, we can flood the control room with guards and be prepared for however many of you show up. We can even postpone the experiment,” 「你不必這麼做，」穆德說。 「如果你說的是真的，我們可以在控制室部署大量警衛，做好應對你們所有人的準備。我們甚至可以推遲實驗。」 Turner laughed and said, 「This way,” urging Mulder down the corridor and to the left. “Here’s the thing. I hope you know I’m telling the truth, that you believe me. But I don’t think either one of us is going to convince anyone else. Silberstein? No way in hell is he going to postpone his big moment. And what’s-his-name, the security guy? McKean? He thinks he’s got everything under control.” They came to a stairway and Turner gently guided Mulder toward it. “Even apart from that, you’re going to have thirty special ops agents materializing at once, each one of them intent on killing Silberstein. No matter how many guys you got, they aren’t going to be able to keep all of them from getting to him. Remember, I’ve seen it happen. It’s bloody and it’s fast and it’s successful,” 特納笑著說：「這邊走，」他示意穆德沿著走廊往左走。 「是這樣的，我希望你知道我說的是真話，相信我。但我認為我們倆誰也說服不了其他人。西爾伯斯坦？他絕對不會推遲他的大動作。還有那個保安叫什麼來著？麥基恩？他以為一切盡在掌握。」他們來到樓梯口，特納輕輕地引導穆德走上去。 「就算不考慮這些，你也會看到三十名特工同時出現，他們每個人都一心想要幹掉西爾伯斯坦。不管你派了多少人，也阻止不了他們全部接近他。記住，我親眼見過。場面血腥，速度快，而且成功。」 They got to the top of the steps and Turner looked at his watch—the guard’s watch—and he said, 「Hold up a minute,” 他們走到台階頂上，特納看了看他的手錶——那是警衛的手錶——然後說：「等一下。」 Mulder wasn’t sure if he was catching his breath or stalling for time. He thought about making a move for Turner’s gun, but he didn’t think he’d succeed, and the fact was, he did believe Turner. For the moment, he was willing to let things play out the way Turner was proposing. 穆德不確定自己是在喘口氣還是在拖延時間。他想過要不要去搶特納的槍，但他覺得自己不會成功，事實上，他確實相信特納的話。目前，他願意讓事情按照特納的提議發展下去。 “Here’s the thing,” Turner explained. “There’s going to be thirty of me showing up in there, each of the thirty different times I’ve time-jumped through this temporal space. I’m the only one of me trying to stop this thing from going down, the only one of me who knows the truth about what this is all about. And regardless of whoever else is helping, I’m the only one who will know which one of me is the youngest. You’re paying attention, right? Because this gets tricky,” 「事情是這樣的，」特納解釋道，「會有30個『我』出現在那裡，分別代表我穿越時空30次來到這個空間的30次經歷。只有我一個人試圖阻止這一切發生，也只有我一個人知道這一切的真相。而且不管其他人如何幫忙，也不管我一個人知道哪個『我』最年輕。 Mulder nodded. 穆德點了點頭。 “I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’ve been thinking about this for a while now. The way I understand it, any one of me gets killed during this attack, it takes out all the older ones, too. They will have never existed, so they’ll cease to exist now. I’m the oldest one, so that means if any of the others go down, I’m sure to go down. And then all you’ve got left is however many younger versions of me, all trying to take out Silberstein. I might be old and messed up now, but before I did thirty time-jumps I was a bit of a badass,” 「我不是什麼聰明人，但我已經思考這個問題很久了。我的理解是，如果我中的任何一個在這次襲擊中喪命，所有更老的版本也會隨之消失。它們原本就不存在，所以現在它們將不復存在。我是最老的，這意味著如果其他任何一個倒下，我肯定也會跟著倒下。 然後剩下的就只有無數個年輕的我，它們都想幹掉西爾伯斯坦。 Mulder felt like his brain was cramping. “So what’s your plan?” 穆德感覺大腦好像抽筋了。 「那麼，你的計劃是什麼？」 Turner looked at his watch again, then looked Mulder in the eye. “I need you to keep the guards from killing me—any of me—until I have a chance to kill the first me. That’ll take out all of us. And it’s the only way this will work,” 特納又看了看手錶，然後直視穆德的眼睛。 「我需要你阻止守衛殺我——任何一個我——直到我有機會殺死第一個我。那樣我們所有人都會滅亡。這是唯一可行的辦法。」 出版年：2008年 系列書包括： X 檔案 第一卷：Trust No One 不要相信任何人 ——Maberry, Jonathan 喬納森‧馬伯里 We all want to believe. 我們都想相信。 The truth is still out there. 真相尚未揭曉。 The X-Files have been reopened. IDW Publishing and series creator Chris Carter have authorized new investigations into the weird, the strange, and the mysterious. 《X 檔案》重啟。 IDW 出版社和該系列創作者克里斯卡特已授權對那些怪異、奇異和神秘的事件展開新的調查。 New York Times Bestseller and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winner Jonathan Maberry brings together some of today's top storytellers for a series of anthologies featuring all-new case files from the X-Files. 《紐約時報》暢銷書作家、多次榮獲布拉姆·斯托克獎的喬納森·馬伯里匯集了當今一些頂尖的講故事者，創作了一系列選集，收錄了來自《X 檔案》的全新案件檔案。 Scully and Mulder continue their journey into darkness as they face aliens, monsters, shadow governments, and twisted conspiracies. 斯卡莉和穆德繼續他們的黑暗之旅，他們將面對外星人、怪物、影子政府和扭曲的陰謀。 |
