作者：Tommy Andreasen

原文來自Ninjago Wiki

譯制：醉酒異客

現(xiàn)在是深夜了，我很累，一會兒我就該睡覺了，而再一次進入夢鄉(xiāng)讓我感到恐懼。篝火在前面噼里啪啦的響著，它應該使我溫暖，可我卻覺得像夢里一樣的冷。我又一次捫心自問我為什么要一個人來。忍者從不會丟下別忍者，要一起行動，相信朋友。這些都是吳大師教授我們的，可為什么我沒聽從？我想或許有些事情你非得獨立去干不可吧。吳大師也獨自一人去往了老道場與狂克斯對質(zhì)，結果呢？他加速衰老，最終困在了時間漩渦里。我總覺得我辜負了他。而現(xiàn)在，為什么在勞埃德發(fā)誓我們在找回吳大師之前永不歇息后，我卻還是獨自離開了？我們已經(jīng)搜尋了很久了，但這不像是找一副丟失的手套那么簡單。吳大師是在時間中迷失了，所以這不僅僅是一個地點的問題，更是一個時間的問題。因此，想要完成這項任務幾乎是不可能的。也許他還沒來到這一刻，也許他已經(jīng)來過了但已經(jīng)離開了。我們對此都心知肚明，但從沒有人說出來過，不過我有時會感覺到杰簡直憋不住要說了。想想看吧，杰竟然也能在心里藏事！我想我們都在變得成熟吧。他是我的合作搭檔。勞埃德之前為了擴大尋找范圍，把大伙兒分成了三個小組，每個搜索隊有兩個人：杰和我，凱和贊，妮雅和勞埃德。 杰真的是個很好的同伴－－當然你得先能受得了他那永無休止的長篇大論才行。他總是要拉著我討論武士X的秘密身份的問題，并對我聲稱他已經(jīng)搞清楚了他是誰。我估計他現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)把忍者國的每個人都懷疑了個遍了。甚至還有個叫伊科森的人，當然他很快就推翻了這個說法，并堅決不承認自己曾懷疑過那個家伙。有一天，杰差點襲擊了那個倒霉的郵遞員，而他當時只不過正在送一張傳單?！皠e裝了！全都招認了吧！”杰沖他喊著。這個可憐的家伙開始結結巴巴地說一些關于如何決定誰能把自己的照片印在郵票上而誰不能的事。如果讓杰用“黑白臉”模式

（譯者注：“黑白臉”詳見文末補充）

去審訊犯人的話，他一定能當一個出色的“黑臉”。最后勞埃德救出了郵遞員并向他道了歉。之后整整六周他都沒有露面。 我和杰先去了多姆的圖書館

（譯者注：多姆的原文為Domu）

。杰有很多關于時間旅行的瘋狂理論，他認為如果吳大師回到了過去的話，他一定會在這兒留下一些線索。經(jīng)過十四天的海量閱讀，我們放棄了這個想法。他要是想留下什么信息的話，大概會選擇別的比在紙上寫字更可靠的方法。也許他會在巖石上刻字？我們又開始尋找那些對他有特殊意義的地方，比如他和哥哥住過的道場，摩羅死去的絕望洞穴等等。贊和凱甚至雇了羅南帶他們?nèi)サ谝淮糜靶D術大師的墓穴，他們翻遍了那里的每一塊石頭，就像勞埃德在誓言里說的：“我們永不歇息，直到……” 這就是我們偶爾會回到寺廟的目的：休息。但正如誓言所說的：我們永不休息。所以休息就變成了訓練。我們在訓練中不斷地激發(fā)著幻影旋轉術的威力與潛能。雷和瑪雅對我們的處境也沒幫什么忙，他們創(chuàng)造的那四把時空之刃有一個還在我們手里，我們不知道該怎么處理它。同時勞埃德堅持認為把它留在身邊太危險了，所以凱和妮雅把它送回了沸騰之海。那里是安全的，只有水火元素大師合作才能到達那里。 在與凱和妮雅團聚后，雷和瑪雅登上了環(huán)游忍者國的旅行，他們現(xiàn)在還沒回來呢。凱和妮雅從小到大一直都不知道他們的父母發(fā)生了什么事，我想那一定很艱難。而現(xiàn)在他們又得再經(jīng)歷一遍這些，而這次消失的是吳大師。我真的不想再失去生命中的任何人了！現(xiàn)在我只希望雷和瑪雅玩得開心，也希望凱和妮雅還…… 這里很冷，我感覺要凍僵了?？晌也粦撚欣涞母杏X，因為我已經(jīng)死了。我正在冰迷宮里，這感覺就像我…… 突然，一個寒噤將我從夢中拉回現(xiàn)實。我在哪？我望向篝火……哦對……當然了，我剛肯定是睡著了。天吶，那個夢一下子就上來了，就好像一個在暗中盯著我的野獸，一等我放松警惕就撲了過來。我喝了點茶，吃了一口沃克太太的蛋糕，那是我隨帶來的?？山裢硭鼑L起來不太好，味道有點像煙灰，但我覺得這應該是我情緒的問題，而不是它的問題。最后我還是就著茶把它吃下去了。有很多時候我吃蛋糕只是為了讓手頭上有事情可做，這已經(jīng)成了我的肌肉記憶了。我愛蛋糕，但或許今后我應該少吃點，多為我的健康著想。 我又開始想楊大師告訴我的那些話。他不讓我叫他大師，但有時我還是會習慣性地這么說。 雖然楊大師與寺廟糾纏在了一起，他仍然可以通過他之前的物品接觸到外面的世界比如博物館墻上的那幅畫。他并不想讓我抱太大希望，但他建議我在一個叫諾姆

（譯者注：原文為Nom）

的村莊開始尋找答案，我對這個名字有印象，但我說不上來是哪里。他出發(fā)去那里的時候我們在一起，這次出行耗費了他全部的精力。他后來告訴我，整個路途對他來說十分困難，那里實在是太遠了。我發(fā)誓幾乎看到他在出汗。一個鬼出汗，這本身就不合理。當我是鬼的時候，我從不出汗，也不知道出汗會不會讓我感到疼痛。鬼邏輯，誰又能真的說得清呢？當他回來時，他已經(jīng)累垮了，連話都說不出來。但他說他感覺到在諾姆有一個人，那個人可能會對我的處境有所幫助。如果我走上一整天的話，明晚我應該就能到那里了。 但在此之前，有一個很大的障礙等著我解決：那個陰魂不散的夢。是時候我閉上眼睛去面對它了。 我喝了最后一口茶，往火里添了一根柴。真希望我?guī)Я藯l毯子，打點行李的確不是我的強項。今晚肯定會很冷。 我閉上眼睛，試著去想些愉快的事情。 我五歲了。月光之中，我看見爸爸和媽媽在我們的老房子前的露臺上跳舞，一切是多么完美和寧靜。他們那會兒把我送上床了，但我又偷偷溜到外面去看他們了。我經(jīng)常這樣做。我爸爸真優(yōu)雅，長大后，我真想成為一個像他一樣的舞者。不管什么別的路擺在我面前我也不會選的。 ……這里很冷，我感覺要凍僵了。

補充說明：

本人對幻忍的研究并不深，若有翻譯不準請在評論區(qū)補充。

關于“黑白臉”的審訊模式，我在別的書上找了點信息……

另附英文版原文：

It is night and I am tired. Soon I will need to sleep. Surrendering myself to the dream again scares me. The bonfire in front and me crackles. It should warm me but I feel cold like in the dream. For the hundredths time I question why I went alone. Ninja never leave a ninja behind. Work as a team. Trust your friends. All those lessons Master Wu taught us. Why am I ignoring them? I guess there are some things that you just need to do on your own. Master Wu went alone to confront Acronix at the burned down monastery. Look what that got him. Rapidly aging and ultimately trapped in time. I feel like I have failed him. Why am I here on a quest of my own when Lloyd swore we would not rest until we found him again? We have done a lot of searching, but this is not like finding a lost pair of gloves. Master Wu was lost in time, so this is not just a question of where but also when. It could be impossible. Maybe he is not even here yet or has been and no longer is. We all know it. No one has said it out loud, though I have felt Jay bursting to do so several times. Restraint from Jay, imagine that! I guess we are growing older. He is my search partner. Lloyd split us up in the beginning to widen the search. Two in each search party. Jay and I, Kai and Zane, Nya and Lloyd. Jay is good company, if you can endure the constant steam of words coming at you. He keeps jabbering on about the secret identity of Samurai X claiming that he's got it all figured out. He must have guessed on everyone in Ninjago by now. Even someone called Ekosan, though he quickly disregarded that theory and then flat out denied having ever said it. One day he almost assaulted the hapless mail man who was just dropping on yet another flyer from Patty Keys. "Admit it! Reveal your secret!", he shouted at him. The poor guy started stuttering something about the obscure practices on how it is decided who gets their portrait on a stamp and who doesn't. In a good/bad cop situation, Jay would definitely be the bad cop. Lloyd saved the mail man that day and apologized. We didn't see him for six weeks after that. First we hit the Library at Domu. Jay had all these wild theories about time travel, and theorized that if Master Wu had fallen into the past, he would have left a message or a book for us to find there. Fourteen days of intense reading later, we abandoned the book idea. He could have left a message in any way more likely a message on something more durable than paper. Carving on rocks? We then started searching places that held special meaning to him: The monastery where he lived with his brother. The Caves of Despair where Morro had perished. Zane and Kai even hired Ronin to take them to the First Spinjtzu Master's Tomb. But leaving no rock unturned is a better saying than something lived out in real life. Just like "We shall not rest until. . . ." That's why we returned to the Temple once in a while: to rest. But we were all restless. So rest turned to training instead we found new techniques and opportunities within Spinjitzu. Ray and Maya couldn't be very helpful either. They had created the Time Blades and we still had one of them. But just the one and no plan. Also Lloyd insisted that it was too dangerous to keep around, so Kai and Nya returned it to the Boiling Sea. It will be safe there; only a master of water and fire together can go there. After reuniting with Kai and Nya, Ray and Maya went on a tour of Ninjago. They probably still are catching up. Kai and Nya went on for so many years not knowing what happened to them. That must have been hard. And now they have to go through the whole thing again but with Master Wu. I am tired of losing people in my life! I hope Ray and Maya are having fun and I hope that Kai and Nya are sti... It is cold and I am freezing.I shouldn't be, because I am not alive. I am in an ice labyrinth. It feels like I... I wake with a jerk.Where am I? I stare into a bonfire... oh yes... of course, I must have nodded off for a second. Man that dream is there immediately. It's like a predator stalking me and just waiting for me to let my guard down. I drink some tea and eat a bite of Mrs. Walker's crumb cake that I brought along with me. It doesn't taste very good tonight though. I'm sure that it is more my state of mind's than the cake's fault, but it tastes like ash; still, I wash it down with the tea. Eating cake is like muscle memory to me. It's just something I do to occupy my hands and mouth some times. I love cake but I think it would be healthy for me to cut back. In several ways. I think about what Master Yang told me. He has told me not to call him master, but it still slips once in a while. Though he is bound to the temple, he can still reach out into the outside world through former possessions of his. Like that painting on the wall in the museum. He was careful not to get my hopes up too much, but he suggested that I would start my search for answers at a village called Nom. I recognize the name, but I can't quite put my finger on it. We were together when he reached out. It took all of his concentration. It was extra hard because of the distance he told me afterwards. I swear could almost see him sweating. A ghost sweating, that's a contradiction in itself. When I was a ghost I never sweated. I wonder if sweat would have stung. Ghost logic, who can really tell? When he finished he was completely exhausted. He could hardly talk, but said that he had felt a presence in Nom who might be able to shed some light on my situation. I should be able to get there by tomorrow night if I walk all day. But before that, there is one big obstacle in my way, and it's time I close my eyes to face it. I take one last sip of tea, throw another log on the fire and scowl myself for not bringing a blanket. I guess planning ahead is not my strong suit. Tonight will be a cold one. I close my eyes and try to think happy thoughts. I am 5 years old. I see my father and my mother dancing in the moonlight on the terrace in front of our old house. I have been tucked in, but I've snuck out to watch them. I do that often. My dad is so elegant. When grow up I want to a be a dancer just like him. Why would I want to be anything else in world which so perfect? . . . It is cold, and I am freezing.