Plastic Sea (ZH) — What's Left, Page 13
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The Maw，一只巨大的骨白色鲨鱼状怪物，身上覆满藤壶并与塑料融为一体，从Candyreef远端的一半猛然破土而出。它张开的嘴里，是一圈圈环状牙齿围成的圆形喉咙。箱子、防水布以及粉色、青色和黄色的塑料碎片飞向明亮的蓝天，下方的小小身影四散奔逃。
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一只巨大的白色鲨鱼状怪物张开大口，从岛上破土而出，箱子和塑料碎片飞向蓝天。
About this chapter
In the dark at the bottom of the sea, something is counting. On Candyreef, a candy-coloured island of floating trash, Roka wakes to a water bag in the face from his street crew, lifts breakfast from the old woman who would have fed him anyway, and tells the kid who follows him that he doesn't owe anybody. Then the gulls lift all at once, and a Maw eats half the island. A day and a night alone at sea later, the Garden Ship fishes him out and orders him to walk its treadwheels for fish heads. Roka is nobody's slave, so he goes looking for something to steal instead, and breaks into a barnacled case dredged from the seabed. The silver dust inside climbs into his arm and says hello. It is polite. It is curious. It wants every human dead. And it has just started counting again.