YOKO - Day 003

宇宙歷 20017 年 10 月 3 日．K33 行星．晴

你好，John。

滿心期待著品嘗怪奇蜜柑的我看來會失望了。因為這個地方已經從小鎮市集，轉型成稍有規模的小型遊樂場哩。

正如你所說，這個星球的科技還不算發達，所以遊樂場裡的玩意都比較舊式。卻因為這個原因，工作人員與客人之間交流多了，反而讓這裡更熱鬧，更富人情味。

我入鄉隨俗地把太空衣轉換成小丑服，然後在服務台買了一堆遊戲幣，便走進遊樂場遊覽。

在遊樂場的一角，我找到了一個小時候曾經很愛玩的遊戲 - 射大板牙。遊戲玩法很簡單，只需使用預設的鐵彈槍，把標靶上角色的門牙全數擊落就可以。

而放在這裡的標靶，是一個很像真的胖胖異星人，他笑容滿面的露出六顆大大的雪白門牙, 害我有種把它們一一擊落的衝動。我在投幣口放進遊戲幣後，便開始瞄準異星人的門牙。

「嘭！」

「好痛！」

「欸？」

萬料不及，在鐵彈擊中門牙時，標靶竟然動了起來。原來他是個貨真價實的異星人！讓我嚇了一跳。幸好異星人看起來完全沒有受傷，反而立刻開始大聲倒數：

「5，4，3，2，1。Game Over！」

就像真正的遊戲標靶一樣，異星人那顆被我擊中的門牙竟然在他倒數結束後重新長出來。

「大板牙哈利多謝你的挑戰。請問要繼續挑戰嗎？」異星人做出跟他語氣完全不相乎的挑釁的動作。

竟然會有身兼標靶的工作人員啊！我再次投入遊戲幣，嘗試在擊中哈利第一隻門牙後的 5 秒內繼續擊落其餘的門牙......

屢敗屢戰下，我終於得到勝利。而剛好背包播音機也開始響起音樂 - 曲子是 Doris Day 的 「Que Sera Sera」。

跟哈利道別時，他送了我一個小丑鼻子裝飾作為完成遊戲的的禮物。

再見了，大板牙哈利。謝謝你讓我再次享受到童年的快樂。

宇宙無邊，生命有限。

-Yoko



Space calendar 3/10/20017. Planet K33. Sunny

Dear John,

Seemed like my wish － tasting peculiar tangerine － would not be satisfied, as this place had been reconstructed from a tiny town market to a small-scale but well-established park.

As what you said, the technology of this planet was not advanced thus the facilities in the park was old-fashioned. However, due to this reason, the relationships between the staff and the visitors were closer, which lightened the spirit of the park and filled it with warmth.

I do as the Romans do － turned on the mimic system of my spacesuit and turn myself into a clown. I bought a handful of coins at the booth and enter the park.

In a corner of the park, I found a game I loved when I was small － Shooting Big Tooth. The rules were simple: use the gun provided to shoot down all the teeth on the targets.

The target in front looked like a big fat alien, the six bright teeth risen my impulse of shooting them down. I inserted the coins, and aimed at the teeth of the alien.

'POOM!'

'OUCH!'

'EH?!'

Startlingly, when the bullet hit the tooth, the target moved! It was a living alien! I was astonished.

Fortunately the alien didn't seemed to be hurt, instead he started to count down.

'5, 4, 3, 2, 1! Game Over!'

No different from a real game target, the tooth of the alien regrown after the count down.

'Big thank you from Big Tooth Harry. Do you wanna continue?' the alien did a provocational gesture that was not quite befitted with his tone.

A living target! How queer! I inserted the coins again and challenged myself to shoot Harry's second tooth in 5 seconds after shooting down the first one...

After several attempts, I won at last. At that time my cassette player backpack played a song － Que Sera Sera by Doris Day.

When I was bidding goodbye to Harry, he gave me a red clown nose accessory as a present of winning the game.

Farewell, Big Teeth Harry. Thank you for letting me to recollect my childhood memory.

Too big the universe, too short to live.

- Yoko


Doris Day - Que Sera Sera