Chapter 30 Zaphod Beeblebrox crawled bravely along a tunnel, like the hell of a guy he was. He was very confused, but continued crawling doggedly anyway because he was that brave. He was confused by something he had just seen, but not half as confused as he was going to be by something he was about to hear, so it would now be best to explain exactly where he was. He was in the Robot War Zones many miles above the surface of the planet Krikkit. The atmosphere was thin here and relatively unprotected from any rays or anything which space might care to hurl in his direction. He had parked the starship Heart of Gold amongst the huge jostling dim hulks that crowded the sky here above Krikkit, and had entered what appeared to be the biggest and most important of the sky buildings, armed with nothing but a Zap gun and something for his headaches. He had found himself in a long, wide and badly lit corridor in which he was able to hide until he worked out what he was going to do next. He hid because every now and then one of the Krikkit robots would walk along it, and although he had so far led some kind of charmed life at their hands, it had nevertheless been an extremely painful one, and he had no desire to stretch what he was only half-inclined to call his good fortune. He had ducked, at one point, into a room leading off the corridor, and had discovered it to be a huge and, again, dimly lit chamber. In fact, it was a museum with just one exhibit the wreckage of a spacecraft. It was terribly burnt and mangled, and, now that he had caught up with some of the Galactic history he had missed through his failed attempts to have sex with the girl in the cybercubicle next to him at school, he was able to put in an intelligent guess that this was the wrecked spaceship which had drifted through the Dust Cloud all those billions of years ago and started the whole business off. But, and this is where he had become confused, there was something not at all right about it. 30 贊福德·畢博布魯克斯正在隧道里勇敢地匍匐前進，跟以前一樣，特別行。他自己也挺困惑，但還是繼續匍匐前進。因爲他是很勇敢的。 他困惑，是因爲剛纔所看到的一切。不過，接下來將要聽到的一切，必將令他更加困惑。所以咱們最好了解一下的他的準確位置。 他正處在版求星上空幾百裏處的機器人戰區。 這裏空氣稀薄，無法抵禦任何宇宙射線。當然，宇宙射線們也根本不屑於照到這兒來。 他把黃金之心停在那些擁擠的巨型戰船之間。有一座建築物最宏偉，想必是最重要的地方。他便走了進去，身上只帶着一支暴殺槍和止痛片。 他進到一條空蕩蕩、光線黯淡的長廊，覺得很適於藏身。於是他藏了起來，因爲版求機器人隨時可能出現。雖說他在版求機器人手上，也曾度過一段有趣的時光，但那段時光又是極其痛苦的，他絕對不想重溫那段時光。 他溜進走廊盡頭的一個房間。這個房間同樣既空曠、又黯淡。 實際上，這是間博物館。只有一件展品——一堆飛船殘骸。它嚴重燒燬，面目全非。贊福德·畢博布魯克斯現在已經補上了那節遠古歷史課（就是他忙着釣隔壁的女孩——並且以失敗告終——而拉下的那節課），因此他已經明白了一切。他還很聰明地猜出，這就是多少億年前，從塵雲之外墜落在此的那艘飛船。它是一切的開始。 然而，他困惑了，這東西有點不對勁。
