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Checked the whole place through and through. Nada.

Even the staff are missing—yet everything looks freshly abandoned. It's like everyone suddenly just… disappeared. Drinks left out on the bartop.

Thought I had faulty directions. Using the Backrooms Robotics contacts to find a noclip spot is safer than doing it manually, so that's what I did, but that can't be the reason as to why everything is fucked—this place doesn't have any entry effects that could cause this. YES, I did verify I'm actively in 750, I checked the GPD page for details. Thank god the Wi-Fi is good here

——(noticeably sloppier handwriting)// Wait. If the Wi-Fi is this good, why have there been ZERO posts on Backdoor with the #Level750 tag in the past 12 hours? If some weird thing caused this, someone should have recorded and posted it by now, right?

It doesn't add up.

Okay, It's been almost an hour since I got here, and I haven't heard diddly squat from ANYONE. IF SOMETHING DOESN'T HAPPEN SOON, I'M GONNA LOSE IT.

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我把整个地方找了个底朝天。屁也没见到。

连工作人员都不见了——但一切看起来都像是刚被遗弃的样子。就好像所有人突然……消失了。吧台上还放着没喝完的酒。

我一开始以为是自己搞错了方向。用后室机器人公司的联系方式来找切入点会比手动操作安全得多，我也确实这么做了，但这不可能是这里一切全部乱套的原因——这个层级根本没有任何能造成这种状况的切入效应。是的，我确实确认过我就在750，我还查了GPD页面上的详细信息。但谢天谢地，这里的Wi-Fi倒是还不错。

（字迹明显变得潦草）等等。如果Wi-Fi信号这么好，为什么过去12个小时里，Backdoor上一条带#Level750标签的帖子都没有？要是真发生了什么怪事，应该早就有人录下来发上去了吧？

说不通。

好吧，我到这里已经快一个小时了，连个屁都没从任何人那听见。要是再没什么动静，我 就 要 疯 了。
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(Noticeable handwriting improvement, writing changed to blue pen. New page)

Me and my big fat mouth. What the FUCK.

I found myself sitting at the bar—not like there was anything else to do. The boredom was getting to me, and

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I started getting tired. The power had been out since I got there, and probably for the first time in history, some real sunlight started streaming in through the overhead skylight near me, and uh

I fell asleep in it like a god damn house cat. I am NEVER beating the allegations.

Point is, I was out of it. I woke up obviously feeling like hell, to such a degree I didn't initially notice the fact that my vision was… staticy.

Like, old VHS tape static.

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（字迹明显工整了不少，换成了蓝色笔。新的一页）

我这该死的大嘴巴。搞什么鬼。

我发现自己坐在吧台边上——反正也没别的事可做。无聊感渐渐爬上来，然后

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我开始犯困了。从我到这儿起就一直没电，或许是史上第一回，真真切切的阳光透过我头顶附近的天窗照了进来，然后，呃

我就像只该死的家猫一样，在阳光里睡着了。我这辈子都洗不清这个名声了。

总之，我迷迷糊糊的。醒来的时候自然难受得要命，难受得我一开始都没注意到，我的视野里……布满了电噪声。

就像老式录像带的电噪点。
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I initially thought it was just my contacts going haywire, but then I realized they weren't even turned on.

I've never really (illegible) experienced this type of Phenomenon before, so I freaked out and ended up turning my contacts on.


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A MASSIVE, writhing cloud of what I can only describe as "energy signatures" almost gave me a seizure. These… THINGS were nearly about to bore into my fucking eyes. I panicked as any reasonable person would, though unfortunately my panic is gonna cost me a hefty sum of BNTG credits —when— IF this place ever gets rebuilt and its… *infestation* cleared.

Point is, I'm not the biggest fan of tiny creatures about to

CRAWL INTO MY FUCKING EYES.

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起初我以为只是我的增强隐形眼镜出了故障，但随后我意识到它们根本就没开。

我从未真正（字迹模糊）经历过这种异常现象，于是慌了神，最后还是把隐形眼镜打开了。

一团巨大的、扭曲翻腾的云状物，我只能用“能量信号”来形容其样貌，吓得我差点当场癫痫发作。这些……东西几乎就要硬生生钻进我的眼珠子里。我像任何一个正常人那样手足无措，只可惜，我的恐慌大概率会让我赔掉一大笔BNTG积分，等到如果这地方有朝一日能重建，并且把……*虫灾*清理干净的话。

总而言之，我一点都不喜欢那些个细小的生物————

它们几乎要爬进我的眼珠子里。

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Sooo yeah. I just… "let the top off the kettle" (as Blanche likes to call it), and that was that. Didn't stick around to see what happened to the rest of the swarm, but one thing is for certain:

(Pen color change)
Looks like I've found my next investigation. Next stop: Kalag

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所以呢，就这样吧。我就……“把壶盖掀了”（用Blanche的话来说），然后就没然后了。我没留下来看剩下的那个虫群怎么样了，但有件事是肯定的：

（换了笔色）

看来我找到下一个调查目标了。下一站：卡拉格

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[[note]]

Didn't feel like schlepping around the journal for this. I'll move the pages over eventually. Anyway, I'm sitting here in Gani's office waiting room, so I figured now was as good a time as any to wr


Ok so. Few updates

-On March 16th, 2025, a massive spike in human fatalities was documented over the course of 40 seconds, Erik being one of them.

-Cause of death is somehow "indeterminate." Yknow. Normal stuff—the omniscient death trackers have no idea what killed over 300 people.
[[/note]]

[[note]]
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-"Indeterminate" has only ever been documented one other time, but I'm not allowed to know about it. Yay me.

—

• Gani will be keeping in touch. This stain on Kalag's spotless record pisses them off just as much as it intrigues me. Maybe even more.

—
-(page ripped)

[[/note]]

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我懒得为这个专门翻日记本了。回头再把这几页归进去。总之，我现在坐在Gani办公地方的等候室里，想着这会儿写点什么正好—，反正闲也是闲着。

好了。有几点跟进

-2025年3月16日，在短短40秒内记录到了人类死亡人数急剧飙升，Erik也在其中。

-死因居然是“无法确定”。你知道的，这也是家常便饭——那些无所不知的死亡追踪系统搞不懂是什么杀了那三百多号人。
[[/note]]

[[note]]
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-“无法确定”这个死因，此前只在另一次事件中记载过，但我没资格知道那次是什么事。可真走运哦……。

—

• Gani会保持联系。这次在卡拉格毫无污点的记载上留下的印记，让他们恼火的程度，绝不亚于让我好奇的程度。说不定程度还要更深些。

—
-（纸页被撕断）
[[/note]]
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[[note]]
—

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(Scrawled in margins: "OH MY GOD THIS FUCKER WON'T SHUT UP")

-I feel like I'm the one getting the better deal in this arrangement. Maybe Gani DOESN'T hate me.

-I've been… strongly suggested to schedule an appointment with the Circle's Jean Meier. Might be difficult. My only Circle contact is Nyx. Oh well. Locked doors haven't stopped me before.
[[/note]]
(Written in top corner of page)

—

—Notes/Reminders
+get a new pen JFC
+Check with Blanche at some point. Doubt she'd know anything if Kalag didn't, but don't give yourself a repeat of the Lotka incident.
+Check Iron Fist patrol schedule before heading out again.
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The last thing I'd want is bringing uninvited visitors to the Circle's base

(Scrawled at bottom of page)
Ok, I managed to get an invitation to meet up with Anthony Kelvin in M.E.G. Base Beta

(Date: 3/19, 3:40 local time)

(DO NOT GO TO LEVEL 4)

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[[note]]
—

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（页边处潦草地写着：“唉这一切根本看不到个头”）

-我觉得在这桩交易里，占便宜的是我。也许Gani并不讨厌我。

-我被……强烈建议去预约下集团的Jean Meier。可能不太容易。我在集团唯一的联系人是尼克斯。那也没辙了，上了锁的门从没阻挡过我。
[[/note]]

（写在页面上角）

—

—备忘/提醒
+买支新笔，我靠
+找时间跟布兰奇确认一下。如果卡拉格都不知道，她恐怕也未必清楚，但别让洛特卡湖的事重演。
+出发前查一下铁拳的巡逻时间表。
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我最不想干的事就是把不请自来的客人带到集团的基地去。

（页面底部潦草地写着）
好，我总算拿到了跟Anthony Kelvin见面的邀请，地点在M.E.G. Beta基地

（时间：3/19，当地时间3:40）

（别去LEVEL 4）
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March 17, 2025

—
Just under 48 hours until I meet with Kelvin. Till then, I've decided to chill out in Level 304. Feel like I deserve a break after all the chaos. I thought about going to Level 7, but who am I kidding. Even the calmest subset of that place can go crazy at any given time. The local fauna isn't exactly friendly.

(post it note: "The Gentleman of Level 7")

"HI!"

"Fancy a spot of tea?"

(Bubble of text)

Plus I fucking HATE the beach anyway. Fuck summer, winter supremacy!! 40 degrees C as the LOW?? hard pass.

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2025年3月17日

—
还有不到48小时，我就要跟Kelvin见面了。在那之前，我决定去Level 304放松一下。经历了这么多乱七八糟的事，我觉得自己该歇歇了。我考虑过可以去Level 7，但这又是在骗谁呢————即便在那里最平静的区域，一切也随时能变得一团糟。当地的生物可不怎么友善。

（便笺：“七层的绅士”）

“嗨！”

“想来杯茶吗？”

（对话气泡框）

再说，我他妈本来就讨厌海边。去他丫的夏天，冬日至上！！打底40度？？硬核拒绝。
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In any case, it's been so peaceful here. No unexpected noclips, no random distortions… definitely what would come to mind if I had to describe a safe haven. Not an entity in sight. Stable. A rarity for this place, but not unheard of. For once, the weight on my soul is… gone. There is nothing for me to absorb here.

I forgot what it feels like.
Normalcy.

—Alexis would like it here.— STOP.


None of the establishments rush you. It has a very "Coffee shop you'd find in a bookstore" vibe.

• Well, with a Mexican backbone to it. It is called "Las Panaderias" after all.

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无论何时，这地方一直很平静，不会意外切出，也没有随机的扭曲……如果要让我形容一个安全的避风港，大概就是这样。一个实体都看不到。稳定。在这里算是少见，但也不是没听说过。难得一次，我心头那份重担……消失了。这里没有什么需要我吸收的东西。

我都忘了它该是什么滋味了。
正常的滋味。

Alexis应该会喜欢这里的。停停停。


这边没有店家催你，赶你，很有那种“书店咖啡馆”的氛围。

• 嗯，还带着点墨西哥的味道。毕竟这里就叫“Las Panaderias（面包店）”嘛。

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March 20th, 2025

OH MY GOD I WAS WRONG.

I've spent the past 40 hours RUNNING FOR MY LIFE from that same damn swarm.

It started slow. Some static that was JUST too far away from a TV screen. I left the Panaderia I was in, already put off by the fact I was seeing the VHS again. I must have put at least 2 miles of distance between myself and that bakery. Just as I was about to enter another, I noticed: the electrical outlet just outside the door was covered in a patch of "glitching" material.

That shouldn't have been possible in a level this stable.

So I kept running. And running. And running.

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2025年3月20日

我的天哪，我错了。

过去四十个小时，我一直在被同样那群该死的虫群追着逃命。

这一切开始得很慢。有些静电噪点，离电视屏幕刚好有段距离。我离开了那家面包店，但看到VHS噪点再次出现时，我已经觉得不对劲了。我跑得远远的，离那家面包店至少有两英里。就在我正要踏进另一家店时，我注意到：门外墙上的电源插座上覆盖着一片“闪烁”的材质。

在这么稳定的层级里，这根本不该出现。

于是我接着跑。跑啊跑啊跑。

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Every time I thought I had found a safe place to rest, there they were.



How many times a day have we walked past these swarms and never known?

It's more apparent to me in 304. This level SHOULD BE IS STABLE. I can LITERALLY FEEL IT. But here we are.

This must be why these… things have remained undiscovered. Every other human alive in this place would write what I'm seeing off as normal glitches. Wait. Do "normal glitches" even exist at all?


oh no.


I need to talk to Meier. I don't have the time to go through the appointment process.

(off to the side corner)

TAKE TRAVEL NOTEBOOK

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每次我以为找到了能歇脚的地方，它们就又会在那出现。

我们每天路过这些虫群多少次，却从未察觉？

在304里，这种感觉更明显。这个层级本该就是稳定的。我能真真切切感觉到这一点。但结果呢，还是这样。

这一定就是这些东西一直没被发现的原因。这地方其他所有活着的人类，都会把我看到的当成普通的故障现象。等等……“普通的故障”这东西真的存在吗？

哦不。

我得去找Meier。我没时间再走完预约的流程了。

（写在一旁角落处）

带上旅行笔记本

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[[note]]

Insects (4)

-AC security is severely lacking in the rapid response department. To be fair, who would ever try to break into a random office?

-Jean Meier is probably what you'd see if you googled "sopping wet stray cat with a nicotine problem."

-Bring a gas mask if I ever come back here because holy fuck I can't breathe.

[[/note]]

[[note]]

Insects (5)

-As soon as I got a word out, Meier's attitude changed from "who let this filthy queer into my office" to "white powder is yummy and I definitely didn't just snort some before you got here."

-Meier was much more of a helper than I expected. Suggested I check out some "places only you(I) could go." We came up with some ideas.

-His coffee tastes like shit.
[[/note]]

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[[note]]

昆虫 (4)

-快速响应部门的安防漏洞相当大。不过说实话，谁会没事闯进一间普通办公室呢？

-Jean Meier大概就是你上网搜“湿哒哒的烟瘾猫咪”时会看到的那副模样。

-如果我还得再来这里，一定要带副防毒面具，这里他妈的根本没法呼吸。
[[/note]]

[[note]]

昆虫 (5)

-我话都还没说完，Meier的态度就从“是谁让这肮脏的基佬进我办公室的”变成了“白粉真好吃，我绝对没在你来之前刚吸过”。

-Meier比我想象中愿意帮忙得多。建议我去那些“只有你（我）能去的地方”看看。我们想出了一些点子。

-他煮的咖啡味道像坨屎。
[[/note]]

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[[note]]

Insects (6)

-Said he'd call for some information to be gathered on visual phenomena that affects tech.

-Had an episode where he randomly started staring into space for like 2 minutes. Me too, man.

-No swarms spotted since 304 (??)

[[/note]]

[[note]]

0+(999)324-5926
Meier

0+(000)000-0000
Gani (emergency only)
[[/note]]

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[[note]]

昆虫 (6)

-他说自己会去调集一些信息，有关一种影响到了科技的视觉现象。

-中间有一阵子他莫名其妙对着空气发呆了大概两分钟。但伙计，那会我也在发呆。

-自打离开304之后我就没再见过那帮虫子了（？）

[[/note]]

[[note]]

0+(999)324-5926
Meier

0+(000)000-0000
Gani（仅限紧急情况）
[[/note]]

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March 22nd, 2025

List of possible leads

The Blue Channel
(Nearly illegible) no.
Level 750
Shady Gray
The Broken
Level 0.2
Level 252
Level 797
The Middlesorts

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2025年3月22日

可能的线索列表

蓝色通道
（几乎无法辨认） 不对。
Level 750
暗灰色
破碎之地
Level 0.2
Level 252
Level 797
中地

I found answers.

我找到答案了。

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You never get used to it.

The smell of death. The suffocating taste it leaves in your mouth.

I try to move on. Bury the visual scars under addictions, outbursts, and stressors.

to forget.

Names fade. Faces don't.

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你永远不会习惯。

不会习惯死亡的气味、它留在你口中的那股令人窒息的滋味。

我试着往前走。靠着上瘾、大发脾气，还有压力，我才把那些伤痕般的画面掩埋掉。

都是为了忘记。

名字会淡去。但面孔不会。

It's the eyes that stay with you. They'll look at you, but it isn't YOU they're looking at.

A mixture of fear, jealousy, realization, acceptance.

Part of me still dies whenever I see those eyes.

But even with all of that

I think not seeing them somehow always feels worse.

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留下来的是眼睛。它们会看着你，但它们看的并不是你。

恐惧、嫉妒、醒悟、接受，混杂在一起。

每次看到那些眼睛，我的一部分仍然会死去。

但即便有这一切

我有一种莫名其妙的感觉，那就是看不到它们反而总会更糟。

I had no luck searching most of the Levels Meier suggested. Others turned up no results either. I only had one left to check until I was gonna head back to the drawing board with Kalag.

Strange how the universe works, isn't it?

It was the Blue Channel. The serendipitous nightmare.

I had a great vein of connected city blocks to spend time in. To think.

Emphasis on "had."

I spent one night lying down on the roof of a skyscraper, just watching the Levels above floating around.

I did not learn my lesson from 304.

Peaceful moments do not exist here.

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Meier建议我去看看的大部分层级里，都一无所获。其他层级也毫无结果。我只剩最后一个要搜了，搜完就打算回去跟Kalag从头再来。

宇宙的运作方式真奇怪，不是吗？

是蓝色通道。那个意外撞上的噩梦。

我有一大片相连的城市街区供自己待着，供自己思考。

思考的重点在“曾有”。

我整晚都躺在摩天大楼的楼顶，空洞地看着上方漂浮的层级。

我没从304层那吸取教训。

这里不存在平静的时刻。

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I felt them before I saw them. My body felt like it was being crushed by my own soul.

This was a me problem. The other small groups of people were oblivious to what was happening right over their heads.

BILLIONS. Maybe more.

All swarming underneath AROUND a very specific Level that had been moving towards us.

The static cleared in one area. Level 304.

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我还没看到就感受到了它们。我的身体像是在被自己的灵魂碾碎。

这是我自个的问题。其他几小群的人完全没有注意到自己头上有什么事情在发生。

数十亿只。 也许更多。

全都蜂拥在底下一个非常特定的层级周围，那个层级一直在朝我们移动。

静电在某片地方散去了。Level 304。

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It all happened so fast. Ripples and pulses of their malignant masses—then they all just… scattered…

Level 304 though…

Without Voidstone to protect it, and with no swarm holding it in, it got SHREDDED.

By its own Level velocity.

The pieces rained down on the city below. I tried to warn the people, but I was too far away. I had isolated myself for their safety. I'm not stable here.

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一切发生得太快。它们那些恶意的团块一波波、一下下地涌出——然后就……散了……

但Level 304……

没了虚空石的保护，也没了虫群的固定，它直接被撕碎了。

被它自身的层级速度撕碎。

碎片落满了下方的城市。我试着警告那些人，但我离得太远。为了他们的安全，我让自己独自待着。我在这里是个不稳定性。

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I couldn't reach them. But I could watch it happen.

These contacts made sure of it.

I saw bodies fall from the sky like hail. Minced by the debris falling with them. The people fled indoors.

I saw a mother and daughter running towards an apartment, being waved in by others. The mother was clipped on the side of her head by a falling "welcome" sign. She fell like a sand bag.

She did not get back up.

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我够不到他们。但我能看着这一切发生。

这些联系人确保了这一点。

我看到尸体像冰雹一样从天上落下。它们被一同坠落的碎片切碎。人们纷纷逃进室内。

我看到一对母女朝一栋公寓跑去，其他人也招手让她们进去。写着“欢迎光临”的一块招牌从天而降，砸中了她的头部侧面。她像沙袋一样倒下了。

她没能再站起来。

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I saw Chaos. Microdosing the apocalpyse. A pastel whirlwind of Liminal Hell.

I saw IT again

IT saw me. IT approached.

IT offered me a deal.

One life for hundreds.

I declined.

IT melted into the abyss.

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我看到了混乱。这是轻度的末日。是阈限地狱里柔和的旋风。

我又看到它了

它也看到了我。它靠近了。

它向我提出了一个交易。

一条命换几百个人的生存。

我拒绝了。

它融化成了深渊。

I'm such a coward.

我真是个懦夫。

原文转录：

Reality Bugs

Reality Bugs.

That's what I've decided to call them.

To most life forms, they are completely unnoticed. Because why would you ever bother to look?

Static is everywhere.

If it were dangerous, we'd know by now.

There's a reason we don't.

This swarm

It… THINKS.

These microscopic creatures, they feed on distortion. The "weirdness." Kind of like what my affliction does. But for them, it's different. They're everywhere, all the time, constantly waiting for the dinner bell.

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现实之虫

现实之虫。

我决定给它们起这个名字。

对于大多数生命形式来说，它们完全不会被注意到。因为你干嘛要费心去看呢？

静电噪音是无处不在的。

如果它危险，我们早该知道了。

我们没察觉，是有原因的。

这个虫群

它……会思考。

这些微小的生物，以扭曲为食。它们吃的是那种“怪异”。有点像我这毛病会做的事。但对它们来说，不一样。它们无处不在，无时不在，一直都等待着开饭的铃声。

原文转录：

In a weird twist of fate, the most stable Levels may be the closest to imminent destruction.

Stability is a sign of food shortage.

These creatures—they're omnivores. But they have their preferences. Thankfully, it seems the 750 incident is an outlier. But stay alert. Honestly, eating people would be preferable to the reality.

Voidstone possesses infinite energy. A freak of nature itself

It's like a buffet for them. Only one. Tiny. Itty bitty issue.

Voidstone keeps most Levels together. Without it, The Backrooms would be SO much worse off.

Level decay is not a natural process.

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造化弄人，最稳定的层级可能最接近毁灭。

稳定，是食物短缺的标志。

这些生物——它们是杂食的。但它们有偏好。幸运的是，750层的事件似乎只是个例外。但保持警惕。说实话，它们要是只吃人，都比吃现实强。

虚空石拥有无限的能量。它本身就是自然界的异数。

对它们来说就像自助餐。只有一个。微小。极小的问题。

虚空石维系着大多数层级。没有它，后室会糟糕得多。

层级的衰变并非自然过程。

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I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this. The look on Gani's face after I started talking told me everything.

They knew all along.

They also knew what I'd do if they just flat-out told me.

I'd go back to Erik. Tell him everything. Pretty soon the M.E.G. would make an announcement.

All hell breaks loose. Mass hysteria.

Gani needed to shut me up. And the only way to do that would be to let me get to this conclusion on my own.

To see the consequences.

参考译文：

我不知道该拿这件事怎么办。我一开口，Gani脸上的表情就说明了一切。

他们一直都知道。

他们也清楚，要是直接告诉我，我会怎么做。

我会回去找Erik。把一切都告诉他。用不了多久，M.E.G.就会发布声明。

一切都会失控。大规模的恐慌。

Gani得让我闭嘴。而唯一的方法，就是让我自己得出这个结论。

让我亲眼看到后果。

原文转录：

I'm going to need to erase Meier's memory somehow. He's not going to stop scratching this itch. It takes one to know one.

Which is also how I know lying will just make it worse.

I've made deals with Janus and Herne before—things involving memories as payment.

I know they can do it. I just need to think of something to trade for. Though I already know deep down what they'd ask.

At what point do I draw the line?

How would I sleep at night if I do this?

Oh well. One thing's for certain.

I'm gonna need way more Xanax this week.

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我得想办法抹掉Meier的记忆。他不会停止追查这件事的。同类相知。

这也是为什么我知道，撒谎只会让事情更糟。

我之前和Janus还有Herne做过交易——用记忆作为报酬的那种。

我知道他们能做到。我只需要想点东西来交换。虽然我内心深处已经知道他们会要什么。

我到底该在哪里划清界限？

如果我这么做，晚上还怎么睡得着？

算了。有一件事是肯定的。

这周我需要多得多的抗焦虑药。