Chapter 27 It was the same hill, and yet not the same. This time it was not an Informational Illusion. This was Krikkit itself and they were standing on it. Near them, behind the trees, stood the strange Italian restaurant which had brought these, their real bodies, to this, the real, present world of Krikkit. The strong grass under their feet was real, the rich soil real too. The heady fragrances from the tree, too, were real. The night was real night. Krikkit. Possibly the most dangerous place in the Galaxy for anyone who isn’t a Krikkiter to stand. The place that could not countenance the existence of any other place, whose charming, delightful, intelligent inhabitants would howl with fear, savagery and murderous hate when confronted with anyone not their own. Arthur shuddered. Slartibartfast shuddered. Ford, surprisingly, shuddered. It was not surprising that he shuddered, it was surprising that he was there at all. But when they had returned Zaphod to his ship Ford had felt unexpectedly shamed into not running away. Wrong, he thought to himself, wrong wrong wrong. He hugged to himself one of the Zap guns with which they had armed themselves out of Zaphod’s armoury. Trillian shuddered, and frowned as she looked into the sky. This, too, was not the same. It was no longer blank and empty. Whilst the countryside around them had changed little in the two thousand years of the Krikkit wars, and the mere five years that had elapsed locally since Krikkit was sealed in its Slo-Time envelope ten billion years ago, the sky was dramatically different. Dim lights and heavy shapes hung in it. High in the sky, where no Krikkiter ever looked, were the War Zones, the Robot Zones huge warships and tower blocks floating in the Nil-O-Grav fields far above the idyllic pastoral lands of the surface of Krikkit. Trillian stared at them and thought. Trillian, whispered Ford Prefect to her. Yes? she said. What are you doing? Thinking. 27 山還是那座山，卻又今非昔比。 這次，它不再是幻影。他們真的站在版求星上。樹叢中，停着他們的交通工具——那間古怪的意大利飯館。他們就這樣，來到真實的版求星上。 腳下茂密的草地是真的，肥沃的土壤是真的，樹叢那醉人的香氣，也是真的。黑夜，同樣是真的。 版求星。 這兒，也許是銀河系中最危險的地方了——只要你不是版求人。這兒的人們仇視一切外人。哪怕見到一個外人，這些可愛、快樂、智慧的居民們便會立即發出恐懼、狂暴和怨毒的嚎叫。 阿瑟打了個冷戰。 司拉提巴特法斯打了個冷戰。 福特竟然也打了個冷戰。 他打冷戰還不算希奇，最希奇的是他竟然來了。不過，在送走贊福德之後，福特突然很後悔自己沒跑。 不該啊。他心裏唸叨着。不該啊不該啊。他緊緊握住手中的暴殺槍。他們每人都在贊福德的軍械庫裏取了一支。 崔莉安打了個冷戰，皺起眉頭仰望着天空。 天空，同樣今非昔比。它不再空無一物。 經過兩千年的版求戰爭，又經過封在封皮裏的一百億年（當地時間：五年），版求星的地貌景觀並無太大的改變。倒是天空，變得大不一樣了。 天上，有微弱的光和大塊的陰影。 在那版求人從來不看的天上，佈置着戰爭區，機器人區——那兒有巨型戰船，有懸浮的塔樓。這片無人區，就這樣漂浮在田園牧歌般的版求星上空。 崔莉安望着這一切。陷入沉思。 “崔莉安。”福特小聲叫她。 “嗯？”她說。 “你在幹嘛？” “想事情。”
