《Let There be Darkness》中的设定的收集（1）(22)

他们穿过许多走廊，走下许多楼梯，偶尔会经过烧焦、破烂不堪的身影，这些身影躺在破烂的黑色制服中。有时，他们会看到成堆的焦黑骨头或黑色、粘稠的斑点，灰泥从墙上剥落，好像是因为高温。有一次，朱迪瞥见一个男人的上半身直立在角落里，他白色的实验室工作服一尘不染，下肢烧焦的部分与似乎是半熔化的冲锋枪残余物混合在一起。还有一次，她瞥见地板上有一个人的脑袋在怒目而视，并隐约惊讶地认出了康斯坦丁那张因恐惧而扭曲的容貌。然而，她并没有感到恐惧，只有一种梦幻般的麻木感。. . .
4. As they traversed several corridors, and descended three or four flights of stairs, Taggart saw places where whole sections of the walls and ceilings had fallen away. Once they passed down a corridor where every room was labeled "Reeducation," with a letter beneath each sign. They saw no living thing but occasionally passed charred corpses sprawled in pools of sooty gore on the concrete.

当他们穿过几条走廊，走下三四层楼梯时，塔格特看到了整块墙壁和天花板都已经坍塌的地方。他们穿过一条走廊，每个房间都标有“再教育”字样，每个标牌下面都有一个字母。他们没有看到任何活物，但偶尔会经过烧焦的尸体，这些尸体四肢摊开在混凝土上的煤黑血泊中。
5. But the rest came on. There were over a score of them, guards and attendants together, the foremost of them firing pistols. Bullets whined and chipped plaster from the walls. Taggart shoved the regulator on the Zarrian blaster up to full power, gripped the handle with both hands, and fired.
A wave of violet flame swept the hall with a roar like that of a blast-furnace. Bodies burst into charred, bloody tatters that plastered walls, floor, and ceiling with a sooty, reddish gore. Thunder rolled and roared along the corridor. . . .