合金裝備MGS4 BOSS Screaming Mantis介紹

在Outer Haven的中樞，那個有著「Second greatest boss」之稱的人的繼承者出現在了最後的道路上，毫無懸念的Meryl又成了被操縱的傀儡……一切都是那麼的熟悉，唯一的變化就是這一次是PS3了……於是……

　　Mantis came form South America, she was born and rised in a country wracked by never-ending civil wars.

　　螳螂來自南美，在一個被永不停止的內戰所破壞的國家裡出生和成長。

　　Her village was attacked by enemy forces and burned to the ground.

　　她的村莊被敵人的部隊攻擊，並且燒成了白地。

　　This was when she was still a little girl.

　　這都發生在她還只是個小姑娘的時候。

　　Hunted by enemy death squads, she was separated from her family.

　　被敵人的行刑隊所追捕，她與她的家人失散了。

　　（death squad：行刑隊，拉丁美洲國家內右派組織,專事謀殺左派分子或是自由派分子）

　　She barely managed to escape with her life...Ended up in the basement of this one building.

　　她幾乎成功的逃脫了性命……卻在這座建築物的地下室裡停住了。

　　It was full of corpses that had been dumped there.

　　這裡充斥著被拋棄於此的屍體。

　　Almost all of them had been tortured to death.

　　幾乎全部都是被拷打致死的。

　　She was petrified with fear.

　　她被嚇得幾乎僵化了。

　　And then she heard the sound of heavy boots on the floor above her, followed by shrieking screams, the kind that would make every hair on your body stand straight up.

　　然後她聽到了厚重的靴子聲從樓上的房間傳來，接踵而至的是尖叫聲，那種能讓你毛骨悚然的尖叫聲。

　　She had stumbled across a makeshift torture chamber.

　　她偶然發現了一個臨時代用的拷問室。

　　Somebody had locked the door, and she was trapped.

　　有人把門鎖住了，而她則被困在了裡面。

　　It was dark, it was dank. And it was full of a wretched stench.

　　黑暗，潮濕，又充滿了惡臭。

　　She couldn't sleep with the scream of torture victims all around her.

　　在被拷打的受害者的尖叫中，她無法入睡。

　　All she could do was sit curled up in one corner of the room, trembling.

　　而她能做的，就只是蜷縮在房間角落裡，顫抖著。

　　A week passed, then ten days.

　　一個星期過去了，之後是十天。

　　She managed to keep hydrated by drinking filthy water pooled upon the floor, but there was no food.

　　她通過喝房間地板上淤積的臭水來保持身體水分，但是卻沒有食物。

　　Being trapped in that kind of place, half-crazy from hunger, did a serious number on her mind.

　　被困在那樣的地方，被飢餓折磨至半瘋，給她的精神帶來了嚴重的打擊。

　　Did you know female mantis eat their mates?

　　你是否知道雌螳螂會吃掉她們的伴侶？

　　The screams went on day and night, she covered her ears but it didn't help.

　　尖叫聲日夜不停，她嘗試摀住耳朵卻無濟於事。

　　And then, she was saved...

　　之後，她得救了……

　　By a little black mantis, that thaught her how to block out the screams, how to plug up her inner ears.

　　被一隻小的黑螳螂，它教會了她如何阻擋尖叫聲，如何塞住她的內耳。

　　(What the hell are you talking about?)

　　（你究竟在說些什麼？）

　　I'm saying, Snake, that when she couldn't stand the hunger any longer, she started feeding on the corpses...

　　我是在說，Snake，當她無法在忍受飢餓的時候，她開始以屍體為食。

　　But only the male ones.

　　但是只吃男性的。

　　She didn't realize who was doing it.

　　她並沒有意識到是誰在這麼做。

　　In her mind, it was a female mantis, devouring her mates.

　　在她的意識中，是一隻雌螳螂，正在吞嚥她的配偶。

　　It was like one big, twisted walking dream.

　　就像一個巨大的，被扭曲了的白日夢。

　　There was no mantis, of course.

　　當然，其實是沒有螳螂的。

　　It was all a hallucination.

　　那都是一種幻覺。

　　Nothing more than some story spun by another person she'd created inside.

　　僅僅是她自己在腦海裡虛構的另外一個人而已。

　　Her unstable mind was what made her so vulnerable.

　　她不穩定的意識致使她是如此的脆弱。

　　Later they ripped out what was left of her psyche with drugs and hypnosis, and implanted the persona of Psycho Mantis.

　　不久後他們用藥物和催眠抹去了她剩餘的精神，並且植入了精神螳螂的人格。

　　It wasn't her will that controlled the BBs, it was Psycho Mantis, half-assimilated into her soul, pulling the strings.

　　並不是她的意願在控制著Beauty and the Beast，而是精神螳螂的，半同化進了她的靈魂，操縱著木偶線。

　　Screaming Mantis was just another puppet.

　　尖叫螳螂只不過是另外一個傀儡。

　　Anyway, she survied several weeks down in that hellhole and finally got back to the surface.

　　總之，她在那地獄裡存活了數周，最終回到了地面上。

　　But the screams in her head didn't subside.

　　但那些在她腦海裡的尖叫卻沒有平息下來。

　　They would always be with her...Only this time, they weren't real.

　　它們將會永遠伴隨著她……只是這一次，它們不是真的了。

　　The inner earplugs didn't work anymore. The black mantis had disappeared.

　　內耳塞不再管用了。黑螳螂消失了。

　　There was no place left to escape.

　　無處可逃。

　　Which is why she was always screaming---to drown out the ones in her own head.

　　這就是為什麼她總是在尖叫——要壓過那些在她自己腦海中的。

　　全文完，感謝看到這裡的每一個人