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创造者并无忠心，只对您，蒙特法罗将军。”
"Yes，" said Camille，"it is ready to obey your instructions." Talisac spoke，and Camille

translated．"He says he has no loyalty to its Creator，only to you，General Montefalco."

“这很动听。”
"That's good to hear."

蒙特法罗对它招了招手。
Montefalco beckoned to it．

“那末来吧。”
"Come on then."

那个生物犹豫地迈出一步。然后是另一步。
The creature made a hesitant step．Then another．

“我能和你一起去吗？”卡米尔说。蒙特法罗低下头看着几乎裸体的她。“除非你把自己包裹好，”他说。
"Can I come with you？" Camille said．Montefalco looked down at her nakedness．"Only if you

cover yourself up，" he said．

她微笑着，然后走开去拿她自己那件被虫蛀的皮大衣。
She smiled，and then went away to fetch herself a flea-bitten fur coat．

他们一起走入夜色：三个人。将军，侏儒和它。
They went out into the night together: the three of them．The General，the Dwarf and Venal

Anatomica．

黎明即将到来。事事无定论。尽管葛瑞塔萨巴提尔已经在去往卡勒斯的路上遭到了强盗的毒手 - 一个她没有

预见到的命运 - 她在很多方面依然十分正确。一个时代已经走向末曰：这对爱侣的时代。
Daybreak wasn't far off．Neither was the end of certain things．Though Greta Sabatier had been

killed by the bandits on the road to Calyx - a
fate she had not foreseen - she had been right about that much．An age was coming to an end: and

it was the Age of Lovers．

VI·MONGROID - THE SECOND COMING 孟格里德 - 基督再临

I

塔利萨克医生独自一人躺在他的尸体堆里，静静地等待着神圣时刻的到来。他的身体从来没有象现在一样剧烈

地颤抖过。这一切都是因为那个即将出生的孩子，他所怀着的孩子：克隆婴儿孟格里德（MONGROID）。 回顾

自己这一生中的成功与失败，塔利萨克开始深信自己真正想要的不是造一个卡米尔那样的侏儒，而是一个真正

属于他的孩子：一个与他有着相同基因，流着相同的血液的孩子。对他而言，这即将来临的分娩是件神圣的事

情，从某种意义上说，他将是另一个圣母玛利亚。
In his bunker of dirt and corpses Talisac waited alone，while his body - which was a thing

without precedent - twitched and jumped and spasmed．There was a child inside of him; the

MONGROID，the infant of the Second Coming．Or so he'd come to believe，after the years he'd

spent experimenting upon others，and himself．It wasn't until he had created a homunculus that

would be to all intents and purposes his child，its flesh made up of the same DNA as his，that

he had come to believe there was something holy in the imminent arrival．It was another Virgin

Birth．

再过几个小时，他的孩子就将躺在他的怀抱中了。他不愿与任何人分享这成功的喜悦，他要独享着一刻，要知

道在这一刻到来之前他忍受了多少的孤独啊。他常常会在午夜时分被一个奇怪的梦惊醒，在梦中他的孩子走到

他面前告诉他世界即将灭亡，不过没关系，因为他们在一起。于是，男人和孩子一起面对世界末日。
In only a matter of hours now，the child would be in his arms．He would have no one to share the

triumph of what he'd achieved，but so be it．He'd been alone all his life，even in the company

of his fellow human beings．Alone with his ambition，alone with his failures，alone with the

strange dreams that came to find him in the middle of the night; dreams of his child，speaking

to him，telling him that the world was going to end，but that it wouldn't matter，because they'd

be together，Man and Child，to the End of Time．

他开始感觉到分娩前的阵痛了，体内的孩子正挣扎着要出来，他能听到它挣扎时发出的微弱而尖细的声音。随

着阵痛的加剧，塔利萨克开始哭叫起来，废弃的修道院里回荡着他恶毒的诅咒……最终，“圣婴”用他那小小

的手指和柔软的指甲撕破了子宫的束缚，和带着血腥气的羊水一起滑落到地上，降生在了尸体丛中。
He could feel the child struggling to get out now．He could hear its tiny，high-pitched voice as

it worked to free itself．The pain was excruciating; a vicious hallucinogen．He sobbed and he

screamed; the Convent had never heard such cursings as it heard now．But finally the womb tore

as the Holy Child scrabbled with his little hands，his little nails，and in a gush of blood-

tinged fluids the Mongroid was disgorged onto the ground amongst the corpses．