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魔法特为13写的短篇小说‘The Terror Of The Umpty Ums’ The reeking flesh mass was silent for a moment before twistingand stretching its upper, frontal skin lumps into a new configuration.Karpagnon’s visual circuits processed and pattern-matched the configurationwithin two nano-seconds: apparently the human was smiling. Karpagnon consideredfor a moment and elected not to retaliate. 那块散发着恶臭的肉块沉默了片刻,然后扭动着身体,将其上身、前额的皮疙瘩伸展成一个新的构型。卡帕格农的视觉回路在两纳秒内处理并匹配了这一配置:显然,这个人类在微笑。卡帕格农考虑了片刻,选择了不反击。 “Did you hear me?” emittedthe Human from its flapped aperture. “Did you understand? Do you understandwhat I’m saying?” The encoded sound stream was accompanied by a fresh flow ofsmells also emanating from the aperture. Karpagnon’s sensory filter beganprocessing the new odours, while his tactical monitor noted that they wereunlikely to be directly significant to the Human’s communication. The lightspray of moisture was similarly dismissed. “I’ll be back tomorrow morning. Dr.Johnson and Dr. Ahmed will be here too. Do you remember them?” "你听到了吗?"人类从其拍打的光圈中发出了声音。"你听懂了吗?你听懂了吗?" 伴随着编码后的声音流,还有一股新鲜的气味也从光圈中散发出来。卡帕格农的感官过滤器开始处理新的气味,而他的战术监视器注意到,这些气味不太可能直接对人类的通讯产生重大影响。而那股淡淡的水汽也同样被驳回了。"我明天早上再来。约翰逊博士和艾哈迈德博士也会在这里。你还记得他们吗?" No explicit threatdetected, noted the Tactical Monitor, while the Strategic Oversight Junctionadded that an implied, non-explicit threat was still possible – but then theStrategic Oversight Junction was like that. Beef and onions advised the SensoryFilter. 战术监控器注意到,没有发现明确的威胁,而战略监督结界则补充说,隐含的、非明确的威胁还是有可能的--但后来战略监督结界就这样。牛肉和洋葱向感官过滤器建议道。 Karpagnon scanned thehabitation box again, but there was no new information of tactical value. Therewas the little bed (which he had to pretend to sleep in) the window (which wasbarred) and the door (which was open at the moment.) His scan ended on theHuman (Dr. Petrie proffered a Context Activated memory bubble) who was sittingon the chair by the bed and clearly expecting a reply. Karpagnon sifted amongthe options presented by his various Diplomatic Interface Modules and selectedappropriately. “Yes,” he said, “I received and understood your communicationand I remember Dr. Johnson and Dr. Ahmed. I shall destroy your world and all whobreed here in fire and anguish. I hope you enjoyed your beef and onions.” 卡帕格农再次扫描了一下居住箱,但并没有发现有战术价值的新信息。只有那张小床(他不得不假装睡在里面)、窗户(被封住了)和门(此刻门是开着的),他的扫描在人类(皮特里博士提供了一个上下文激活记忆气泡)上结束了,他坐在床边的椅子上,显然是在等着回复。卡帕格农在他的各种外交界面模块所提供的选项中筛选了一下,然后适当地选择了一个。"是的,"他说,"我收到并理解了你的通信,我记得约翰逊博士和艾哈迈德博士。我将毁灭你们的世界,以及所有在这里繁衍的人,在火与苦恼中毁灭。我希望你喜欢你的牛肉和洋葱。" “I’ll be seeing you then,”said Dr. Petrie, and rose to go. “I shall eviscerate you atthe first opportunity,” replied Karpagnon. “Good night.” As Dr. Petrie moved to thedoor, the Tactical Monitor advised: escape must be initiated in 2.7 hours infull darkness. "那我就去见你了。"皮特里博士说着,起身要走。 "我会在第一时间驱赶你的。"卡尔帕格农回答说。"晚安。" 当皮特里博士走到门口的时候,战术监督结界建议:必须在2.7小时内,在完全黑暗的情况下,发起逃生。 The Strategic OversightJunction further advised: all humans in the installation should be destroyedbefore departure. The human designated as Dr. Petrie is the priority target. 战略监督结界进一步叮嘱:在出发前,必须消灭装置内的所有人类。被指定为皮特里博士的人类是优先目标。 The Sensory Filter noted:the sweat gland emissions from the human designated as Dr. Petrie revealssignificant adrenal content. This indicates Dr. Petrie has a fear reaction inthe upper quartile. “And a big bottom,” addedanother voice. 感官过滤器指出:被指定为皮特里博士的人类的汗腺分泌物显示出大量的肾上腺成分。这表明皮特里博士的恐惧反应在上四分之一的范围内。 "还有一个大底,"另一个声音补充道。 … If Karpagnon could havefrowned, he would have. Where did that come from? He did a quick internal scanbut couldn’t source the unexpected data stream. ............如果卡帕格农能皱起眉头,他一定会皱起眉头。这话是从哪里来的?他在内部快速扫描了一下,但却无法找到这突如其来的数据流的来源。 “I mean you wouldn’texpect it from the front, but then he turns round and boom!” “Identify untagged datastream!” demanded Karpagnon. “I mean, size of thatthing! Could take your eye out.” “Identify untagged datastream!” repeated Karpagnon. No untagged data streamdetected replied the Internal Data Relay Monitor. "我是说,你不会想到前面会有这种情况,但他一转身,轰!" "识别未标记的数据流!"卡帕格农要求道。 "我是说,那东西的大小! 能把你的眼睛给挖出来。" "识别未标记的数据流!"卡尔帕格农重复道。 内部数据中继监控器回答说:"没有检测到未标记的数据流。 Karpagnon considered for amoment. The additional stress of maintaining his holographic shell (currentlyprojecting an image of a 12-year-old boy called David) could conceivably becausing glitches in the logic junctions. Perhaps it was no more than that. Atemporary shutdown would fix the problem, and in any event it would be wise torefresh his systems before the escape. 卡帕格农考虑了片刻。维持他的全息外壳(目前投射出一个叫大卫的12岁男孩的图像)的额外压力可能会导致逻辑连接处出现故障。或许,这并不限于此。暂时的关机就能解决这个问题,无论如何,在逃跑前刷新他的系统是明智的做法。 For appearance’s sake, Karpagnon swung his legs round so that hecould lie down on the bed and switched his hologram eyes to the closedposition. As he lay there, he listened to his internal relays shutting down oneby one. 为了外表的缘故,卡帕格农把双腿摆动了一下,这样他就可以躺在床上,并把全息眼切换到闭上的位置。当他躺在那里的时候,他听着内部的继电器一个接一个地关闭。 Tactical Monitor going off-line. Strategic OversightJunction going off-line. Sensory Filter enteringsleep mode. Internal delay on alertmode only. For a moment there wasonly the ticking darkness. “N’night fam!” 战术监督结界脱机。 战略监督结界进入脱机状态。 感应过滤器进入睡眠模式。 内部延迟仅在警戒模式下进行。 刹那间,只有滴答的黑暗。 "晚安,家庭!"
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