《蝗灾中的世界：重建秩序》丛书宣传单 Flyer for The World in Swarm Disaster: Rebuilding Order Book Series

折纸大学汇编的丛书宣传单，介绍的书目记录着蝗灾下的世间百态。 A flyer for Paperfold University's anthology series, documenting various scenes of life during the Swarm Disaster.

「折纸大学谐乐学院院长、首席调研员联袂推荐！」

"Endorsed by the Dean and Chief Investigator of the Charmony Academy at Paperfold University!"

「此生不得不读的十套书之一！」

"A must-read! One of the 10 most important series of our time!"

「妙趣横生的文章，最好的睡前读物！

"Full of witty insights and the perfect way to wind down your day.

——*一位以私接商单闻名的博识学会研究员*。」

—*A researcher from the Intelligentsia Guild who's notorious for writing paid reviews*."

导言

Preface

虫潮自大拉铂尔星升起，掠过众星，留下一片废墟。

The Swarm came from Lapole Major, a torrent that left the cosmos in ruin.

十数个琥珀纪于宇宙而言不过弹指一瞬，但宇宙的一次颤动需要千万年来准备。命途随之孳生、颠覆，此消彼长，等待另一次漫长的洗牌。

To the universe, dozens of Amber Eras are mere moments, but a single cosmic shift takes millions of years to build. Paths are forged and shattered, waxing and waning, then waiting for fate to shuffle the deck again.

此套丛书中的书目，汇集蝗灾中有关「秩序」的数件具备发端性的事件，旨在论述这样一种可能：「秩序」在蝗灾肆虐期间并未式微。无数星球在鞘翅的阴影下结合为同一个意志：对生存的渴求，令它在其命途上行向了更远。

The books in this series analyzed multiple events regarding the Order that initiated something new during the Swarm, all to posit this possibility:The Order did not wither during the ravages of the Swarm Disaster. Countless planets were bound into a single will beneath the shadow of carapace wings. The yearning for survival drove this concept to walk further along its Path.

那么太一的陨灭，究竟是因衰弱而枯竭，还是达到顶峰、走向歧途后的自反？这个问题恐怕要留待读者在翻阅本丛书后解答。

Was the fall of Ena, then, a consequence of weakness? Or was it the paradoxical self-destruction of a power that, having peaked, had nowhere to go but inward? The answer lies would have to be answered after you have read all of these pages.

《尼古尔-C4考古报告》

The Nigul-C4 Archaeological Report

作者：甘索托考古队

Author: The Gansoto Archaeological Team

出版社：博识学会第三十二出版社

Publisher: The 32nd Press of the Intelligentsia Guild

1932琥珀纪，一颗漂流已久的行星被甘索托星俘获。次日，一笔来自公司的专项资助抵达甘索托，武装考古学派随即将之接管。劝走围观的无名客，又击毙几个跃跃欲试的星际盗宝者，他们得出的勘探结论令人惊异：轨道上濒临解体的行星，正是早已消失于星图的尼古尔-C4。数百个琥珀纪前，它竟奇迹般地从奥博洛斯的齿缝间生还。

    Amber Era 1932: a planet, having drifted for ages, is captured by the planet Gansoto. The following day, a special IPC grant arrived, and the Armed Archaeologists faction promptly took over the site. After sending away the Nameless onlookers and putting a few eager interstellar looters in the ground, their survey leads to a startling conclusion: The planet now crumbling in orbit is none other than Nigul-C4, long-vanished from the astral charts. Against all odds, it had survived the fangs of Oroboros hundreds of Amber Eras ago.

散漫、闭塞曾是尼古尔部落的代名词，他们以香料的垄断贸易为生，屡次拒绝筑墙者投来的橄榄枝。本书将讲述尼古尔人如何在虫群的侵袭之下走出岩洞，在短短四十年中抛弃一切传统，制定秩序，将松散部落结为盟邦，筑造对抗虫群的壁垒，并在直面古兽时殊死一搏。尽管最终尼古尔人难逃消亡命运，他们笃信的箴言却被刻在岩壁上送到了我们的时代：一切为了生存……

    The Nigul tribes had always been known for being scattered and insular, subsisting on a spice monopoly and consistently rejecting overtures from the Wallbuilders. This book recounts the Nigul people's dramatic transformation under the Swarm's assault. In just four decades, they abandoned all tradition to forge a new order, uniting their disparate clans, building defenses against the Swarm, and resisting till their last breath when facing a Leviathan. Though their race did not escape their destined death, their creed lasted till our time, etched onto rocks: <i>Whatever it takes to survive...</i>

《祂说，我们将一切均匀分割》

"THEY Said, We Shall Divide Everything Evenly"

作者：佚名

Author: Anonymous

出版社：惊梦儿童文学出版社

Publisher: Dreamjolt Children's Literature Press

一道不断向内塌陷的弦…像一个甜甜圈。虫群散去，一切可吃的都被吃尽了，一切可用的都被用尽了。热量不再流动，斯缇人被遗弃在空无一物的城市，一座热寂的孤岛，徒劳地想念着氟利昂驱动的制冷器、百货大楼门前的绿荫、冷冻食品五颜六色的包装。就在这时，祂示现在柏油路延伸至天际的热浪里…像一个甜甜圈。

    A string collapsing inward endlessly... like a doughnut. The Swarms dissipated. Everything edible had been eaten. Everything usable exhausted. Heat no longer flowed. The Stii people were abandoned in a city stripped bare, a lonely island of heat-death, longing in vain for Freon-driven coolers, shades in front of department stores, and the rainbow packaging of frozen foods. And then, THEY appeared in the heat waves above the asphalt road stretching to the horizon... like a doughnut.

祂说，尚未到来。

    <i>THEY said, not yet.</i>

于是他们焚烧城市。人流井井有条地行走，默契地将每一栋建筑点燃。黑色的粉尘沉降，将一切染为同一种颜色。

    So they burned the city. People walked in perfect order, setting every building aflame in tacit understanding. Black dust settled, coloring everything the same shade.

祂说，尚未到来。

    <i>THEY said, not yet.</i>

于是他们焚烧自己。野火沿着煤矿矿坑向下沉降，泥炭在岩层中闷烧。城市跌入地幔，他们感到皮肤在向胸口以内坍缩……

    So they burned themselves. Wildfires sank downward along the coal pits. Peat smoldered deep in the rock layers. The city sank into the planetary mantle, and they felt their skin collapsing inward toward somewhere within their chests...

祂说，尚未到来。

    <i>THEY said, not yet.</i>

虫灾散去后数个琥珀纪，筑墙者用推土机般厚实笨重的舰船的巨大铲斗清扫这片星域。在斯缇星曾在的坐标，他们只望见一个黑洞在不断坍缩，冷静、沉默、心口如一。

    Several Amber Eras after the Swarm calamity, the Wallbuilders swept this segmentum with massive scoops, as steady and slow as bulldozers, mounted on space ships. At the location where the Stiis' planet had been, all they saw was a black hole collapsing endlessly... Calm, silent, the same within as it is without.

《笑到最后：笑话理论考古学》

"Last Laugh: Archaeology of Joke Theory"

作者：红鼻老人

Author: Red-Nosed Old-Timer

出版社：虚构史项目基金会

Publisher: Fictional History Project Foundation

十位愚者来到群星间的抛锚地。弗朗伯罕星平动点L2，航天器、虫群与遇难者的残骸在一片黑暗中沉积。愚者撷取一颗泪滴，从它暗淡的光芒中获悉，伶人的贡多拉曾停泊此处，为这座坟场落泪，但如今早已启程远航。

    Ten Fools arrived at an anchoring area among the stars. At Flamborghan's L2 liberation point, spacecrafts, the Swarm, and the wreckage of victims floundered in darkness. The Fools plucked a single teardrop and, from its dim glow, learned that the Actors' Gondola had once docked here, shedding tears for this graveyard, but now had long since sailed away.

愚者尚未从错失面具的失落中平复，虫潮便已来临。虫群嗅到船舱中所剩不多的氧气和有机物，不眠不休地撞击舱门。饥肠辘辘之时，愚者也不得不订立规则：每夜讲一个笑话，谁的笑话最无聊，谁就出局。这显然不是一件好笑的事。

    Before the Fools could recover from the loss of having missed their masks, the Swarm arrived. Sensing the dwindling oxygen and organic matter in the cabins, the Swarm assaulted the doors tirelessly. Starving, the Fools were forced to make a rule: Each night, everyone must tell a joke, and whoever told the dullest joke would be out. Clearly, this was no laughing matter.

十日后，只剩一位幸运儿见证虫灾散去。最后一位对手在听他的笑话时忍俊不禁，他因此赢得了属于自己的假面，上面九副重叠的面孔神色各异，也得到了有关笑话最初的理论。在无名坟场的十夜，「欢愉」第一次为「秩序」沾染，那些在阐释、争辩和呜咽中得出的理论，将取乐的艺术规范到每一个标点，其中第一条延续至今：切不可解释笑话。

    Ten days later, only one lucky Fool remained to witness the departure of the Swarm. The final opponent, unable to resist his joke, laughed, and the survivor claimed his own mask, layered with nine distinct faces, and received the original theory of jokes. On those ten nights in the nameless graveyard, the Elation became first touched by the Order. Those theories derived through explanation, debate, and sobbing codified the art of amusement down to every punctuation mark, the first rule of which persists to this day: <i>Never explain a joke.</i>

「若有错字、破损、缺页请联系出版社调换。」

"If there are typos, damages, or missing pages, please contact the publisher to replace them."

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"You're always welcome to place an order!"