對外廣播用的樹狀裝置前的花崗岩,背面刻滿似是「文章」的東西。432Please respect copyright.PENANAZXDJg4Qbxk
而組成「文章」的「文字」都是一些全都很細小的點、橫線,和斜線,在一行行整齊地排列著。432Please respect copyright.PENANAFKqARVWPgE
「文章」的標題也在,而且要比內文的「文字」要大幾個尺碼。432Please respect copyright.PENANAyRmFabP9lO
「阿和、阿俊。你地可唔可以具體咁形容下講嗰塊石上面啲符號?」紫宜在電話另一邊問。432Please respect copyright.PENANAPo23J8pw9X
「係咁嘅。啲符號全部都係點、橫線,同斜線……」阿俊回應。432Please respect copyright.PENANADmp8OQT8hT
「點、橫線,同斜線……」紫宜重覆著,又說:「阿俊,你慢慢讀讀個pattern嚟聽下?」432Please respect copyright.PENANAvEg6Nxls6j
「好……」阿俊全神貫注地觀察花崗岩上的這些符號,開始讀起來:「點、點、空格、點、點、橫、空格、點、橫、點、空格、點、點、點、橫、空格、點、點、空格、點、點、點、橫、空格、點、橫、空格、點、橫、點、點、斜線……」432Please respect copyright.PENANA3hH7xif8MV
聽到惱人的「點」、「橫」、「空格」不停地在重覆,我的精神快要崩潰起來。432Please respect copyright.PENANAfRGKrNZds9
「原來咁多符號啊……你都係影相俾我算啦。」紫宜打斷阿俊的說話。432Please respect copyright.PENANAIflayo3W8e
「係喎……做咩唔影相……」阿俊回應,拿起手機來拍照,再把照片傳給紫宜。432Please respect copyright.PENANAfCfgmHCOZl
紫宜很快就確定這些東西是什麼,她跟我們說:「我啱先聽到你地講緊咩『點、橫線,同斜線』嗰陣,我已經諗緊你地見到嗰啲符號會唔會係『Morse Code』,睇嚟真係冇估錯……」432Please respect copyright.PENANAOVd2NojFUZ
「『Morse Code』?」阿俊問。「哦……原來係『摩斯電碼』。」我回應紫宜,順便跟紫宜解釋。432Please respect copyright.PENANAKaZbNCvwRA
(註:「摩斯電碼」是一種時通時斷的訊號代碼,通過不同的排列順序來表達不同的英文字母、數字和標點符號。)432Please respect copyright.PENANABcSLAQPuuO
「如果係咁就麻煩啦……我要打落啲摩斯電碼翻譯網站度、翻譯返哂做我地睇得明嘅文字。」紫宜埋怨道。432Please respect copyright.PENANAw1pNQDedSd
「我都係第一次見到『Morse Code』,以前成日聽都唔知道係咩。」阿俊說,我也說:「我咪又係。」432Please respect copyright.PENANAlGnQEodpH8
「佢個標題係『Survival of the fittest.』。」紫宜跟我們說。432Please respect copyright.PENANAiZHhamF5NE
「『Survival of the fittest.』?咪Herbert Spencer本《The Principles of Biology》嘅名言?」432Please respect copyright.PENANAEztBj6gv7u
(註:Herbert Spencer即赫伯特·史賓賽,他亦提出將「適者生存」的概念應用在社會學。)432Please respect copyright.PENANAfzyNdJydZo
我想起生物老師曾在課堂上提過的這些東西,疑惑地思索著為什麼這種地方會印上這個字句。432Please respect copyright.PENANAkMS3ywhRxP
如果紫宜沒有翻譯錯誤的話,第一行標題印著「... ..- .-. ...- .. ...- .- .-.. / --- ..-. / - .... . / ..-. .. - - . ... - / .-.-.-」,就是常和達爾文進化論扯上關係的英文片語「Survival of the fittest.」,中文大抵就是「物競天擇、適者生存。」的意思。432Please respect copyright.PENANAg3fkLVsPFK
它在到底在指什麼在物競天擇、適者生存?而它的內文到底又是在表達些什麼?432Please respect copyright.PENANA1dJ2wM9AQd
「內文係第一句係『Our new world can only be created by natural selection.』。」紫宜這時又說。432Please respect copyright.PENANAZyA4PnomVy
第一句即是「--- ..- .-. / -. . .-- / .-- --- .-. .-.. -.. / -.-. .- -. / --- -. .-.. -.-- / -... . / -.-. .-. . .- - . -.. / -... -.-- / -. .- - ..- .-. .- .-.. / ... . .-.. . -.-. - .. --- -. .-.-.-」,意思就是「我們的新世界只能透過自然選擇被創造出來。」。432Please respect copyright.PENANA5luRkIEAD7
「自然選擇」就是指生物在為了生存的鬥爭中適者生存、而不適合環境的弱者會被淘汰再無法存活的現象。432Please respect copyright.PENANAIdyCDJtnVk
至於「新世界」……432Please respect copyright.PENANAEiuFbAqDwq
「呢度嘅『new world』同「新世界議會」有冇關係?」阿俊搶先我一步,已經問了起來。432Please respect copyright.PENANAyCFQhf7ZLp
我們三人一同沉默起來。看來是在思考同一樣的事情。432Please respect copyright.PENANAZvOfNZ7zHr
假如這裡的「new world」確實代表「新世界議會」的話,那麼就代表新世界奉行「適者生存」和「自然選擇」的概念。432Please respect copyright.PENANAQMsjwNG5QG
稍為加以聯想,不難發覺這裡的「適者生存」和「自然選擇」就是指我們……在末日生存的生還者和所有已經死亡的人類。432Please respect copyright.PENANAH6a9Dz59GW
「真係……好……心寒……」我不禁自言自語起來。432Please respect copyright.PENANA41L0KvyBSz
「佢地到底想要啲咩淘汰……」阿俊也說起來。432Please respect copyright.PENANAwdnNcEwrhH
「班人仲扮到好似想救所有生還者咁……好恐怖……」我又說。432Please respect copyright.PENANARn4kU9cRso
「而家呢個事態……我地要聚埋一齊傾傾……等陣間齊人再講。我再試下譯埋份嘢佢。」紫宜說。432Please respect copyright.PENANAVnPjqxDrWY
「你快啲返嚟先,時間都唔早啦。」紫宜又指示我們:「已經就快一點九。」432Please respect copyright.PENANA6PMA26Fu64
「咁快……」阿俊回應。他又向紫宜說:「我地而家就返去。」432Please respect copyright.PENANAGdPjWAWeQg
「都正常嘅。呢間地下室真係好大……我地已經行咗好耐……」432Please respect copyright.PENANA0vydXj2oCF
我回應阿俊。然後準備找路回去地面。阿俊也跟上了我的步伐,說:「我有預感我地仲要嚟呢度搵嘢……」432Please respect copyright.PENANAwx5H7rU3vm
「咁就要睇呢度仲有冇嘢我地要知啦。」我說起來。432Please respect copyright.PENANAFzBrVhcBuy
其實我很不情願再來一次,甚至要我再留在這個的房間多一秒鐘也不想。432Please respect copyright.PENANAT0zr5czJ4L
一想起這裡可能還有著更多未知的線索,我就不由得全身發寒般的恐懼起來。432Please respect copyright.PENANASl6B1hvezc
在一個隱藏著眾多惡意的世界,有時候越知道更多反而越會害怕。432Please respect copyright.PENANAb6EXPBtgFC
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[讓謊言與虛偽堆砌成我們的最後樂土]《終末後.新世界》
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