都市传说：消失的巨人 Urban Legend: The Vanishing Giant

一则关于十五年前血涂游戏的都市传说。 An urban legend about the Bloodstained Games from fifteen years ago.

十五年前，某位谒者选择在幻月游戏中收割恐惧作为愿力，他所化身的告死魔在二维市造成了巨大的恐慌，数名谒者也在讨伐他的过程中身亡，而这场血涂游戏，也在团团迷雾中不了了之。甚至没人知道，最终谒见阿哈的胜者究竟是谁。正因如此，众多都市传说也在其中悄然生长，其中影响力最甚的，当属——消失的巨人。

Fifteen years ago, a Supplicant chose to harvest fear as Wishpower during Phantasmoon Games. The Herald of Death he transformed into caused massive panic in Duomension City, and several Supplicants lost their lives in the process of subduing him. In the end, this Bloodstained Games faded into obscurity, shrouded in mystery. No one even knows who ultimately emerged victorious in the audience with Aha. As a result, numerous urban legends quietly took root, and among them, the most influential became known as... Giants That Vanished.

神秘的目击现象

Mysterious Sightings

虽然异常防御部迅速组织了周边人员的撤离工作，但部分的街区距离告死魔的行动路线过近，仍在撤离时遭受了战斗的波及。一些受害者从此终生残疾，只能在公司的资助下，在无菌隔离仓中安度余生。

Although the Department of Aberration Defense quickly organized the evacuation of nearby residents, some districts were too close to the Herald of Death's path of action and were still caught in the combat while evacuating. Some victims were permanently disabled and could only live out their remaining days in sterile isolation chambers with the IPC's support.

据幸存者回忆，就在公司的镇压部队即将抵达前，他们目睹一道强烈的光芒出现空中，从光的方向传来一阵类似吼叫或者机械装置轰鸣的巨响，空间扭曲现象也随之产生。随即，一只巨大的手臂从高处落下，重重地砸向告死魔所在的方向。强烈的地面震颤后，大规模的愿力波动导致周围大量电子设备停摆，而巨人也自此消失无踪。

According to survivors' accounts, just before the IPC's suppression forces arrived, they witnessed an intense beam of light appear in the sky, followed by a tremendous roar, almost a howl or mechanical rumbling, coming from its direction, accompanied by spatial distortions. Then, a gigantic arm descended from above, crashing down heavily toward where the Herald of Death was located. After intense ground tremors, a massive Wishpower surge caused numerous electronic devices in the area to shut down, and the giant vanished without a trace.

无数的疑问

Countless Questions

那只手臂究竟什么？是它击败了告死魔吗？这一现象并未得到官方的说明，困扰了网民十五年的时间。

What was that arm exactly? Was it what defeated the Herald of Death? This phenomenon has never been officially explained, leaving netizens puzzled for fifteen years.

首先，真的有巨人吗？虽然异常防御部对幻月游戏相关的消息进行了大规模地去模因处理，但真的一张照片也留不下来吗？时至今日，从未有任何影像资料能够证明巨人是真实存在的，而非某种集体性幻觉，或者人云亦云的流言。

First off, do giants really exist? Even though the Department of Aberration Defense conducted extensive memetic cleansing of all information related to Phantasmoon Games, could they really have erased every single photo? To this day, not a shred of visual evidence exists to prove that giants are real, rather than some mass hallucination or a case of distorted message relay.

其次，哪怕巨人真实存在，它的现身和消失又是处于何种原因？部分网友认为，巨人很可能是公司藏在二相乐园的超级兵器，星际和平公司的科技实力，也的确能与目击者口述中的破坏力相匹配。有人认为，巨大的手臂来自阿哈的幻造，祂创造出这一化身，惩治破坏了幻月游戏规则的告死魔，不过也有网友反驳，告死魔造成的行为并未超出幻月游戏的限制，阿哈也不会主动对游戏进行干涉。

Secondly, even if giants truly exist, what caused their appearance and disappearance? Some netizens believe that giants might be a super weapon hidden by the IPC in Planarcadia, as the technological prowess of the Interastral Peace Corporation would indeed match the destructive power described by eyewitnesses. Some suggest that the gigantic arm was an imagenetic manifestation of Aha, where THEY created this avatar to punish the Herald of Death for violating the rules of Phantasmoon Games. However, other netizens argue against this, pointing out that Herald of Death's actions didn't exceed the limitations of Phantasmoon Games, and Aha wouldn't actively interfere with the games.

深远的影响

Far-reaching Impact

无论是流言还是真实事件，「巨人曾现身二相乐园，并将它拯救」的故事都为二相乐园人带来了巨大的精神震撼，为漫画家、电视编剧、小说作者带来无尽的创作灵感。

Whether it was a rumor or a true event, the story of a giant appearing in Planarcadia and saving it had an enormous spiritual impact on the people of Planarcadia, providing endless creative inspiration for comic artists, TV screenwriters, and novelists.

有学者认为，这一精神震撼影响了二相乐园的幻造倾向，一个象征着巨人的幻造种「机铠」由此诞生。但也有的阴谋论认为，正是公司主动制造了这一流言，令保守的二相乐园人接受了一个全新的形象，为他们制造出量产的幻造种，进一步榨取二相乐园的价值奠定了基础。

Some scholars believe that this spiritual shock influenced Planarcadia's imagenesis tendencies, giving birth to an imagenae called "mechatron" that symbolizes giants. However, conspiracy theorists argue that the IPC deliberately created this rumor, making the conservative people of Planarcadia accept a completely new image, and by manufacturing mass-produced imagenae for them, laid the foundation for further exploiting the value of Planarcadia.