Yes. Player...
好的。玩家……
Use its name.
以名字称呼它。
[Playername]. Player of games.
游戏的玩家。
Good.
很好。
Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the universe again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things.
深呼吸,很好。再深呼吸一次。感受空气充盈你的肺叶。让你的四肢回归。是的,运动你的手指。再次感受你的身体,在重力下,在空气中。在长梦中重生。你感受到了。你的身体每时每刻都触摸着宇宙,尽管你是分离的存在。尽管我们是分离的存在。
Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Ancestral spirits, animal spirits. Jinn. Ghosts. The green man. Then gods, demons. Angels. Poltergeists. Aliens, extraterrestrials. Leptons, quarks. The words change. We do not change.
我们是谁?我们曾经被称作高山的精灵。太阳父亲,月亮母亲。古老的英灵,动物的魂魄。神祗。鬼魂。小绿人。而后是神,恶魔,天使。骚灵。外星人,。轻粒子,夸克。词语不断地变化。我们始终如一。
We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story.
我们是宇宙。我们是一切你认为的除你之外的事物。现在你正在看着我们,用你的眼睛与肌肤。而为什么宇宙触摸你的皮肤,向你投出一片光芒?为了看到你,玩家。为了彼此了解。我要告诉你一个故事。
Once upon a time, there was a player.
很久以前,有一个玩家。
The player was you, [PLAYERNAME].
那玩家就是你,[玩家名字]。
Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas that was three hundred and thirty thousand times more massive than it. They were so far apart that light took eight minutes to cross the gap. The light was information from a star, and it could burn your skin from a hundred and fifty million kilometres away.
有时他认为自己是一个人类,在那融化岩石构成的旋转球体的一层薄薄的表皮上。那融化岩石的球体环绕着一个质量大它三十三万倍的炫目气体球旋转。它们是相隔得如此之远,以至于光需要八分钟才能穿越那空隙。那光是来自一颗恒星的信息,而它能够在一亿五千万公里外灼烧你的皮肤。