Chapter 10

Chapter 10 My mind is racing and I can't slow it down. I'm trying really hard to figure out the next step to take so that we can find Appa. I'm trying to understand why nobody in this city wants to talk about a war that's on the verge of destroying their home—and the rest of the world! What is with these people? Katara, Sokka, Toph, and I decided to go put up MISSING BISON posters all around the city, in the hopes that maybe someone had seen Appa somewhere. When we got back home, someone knocked on the front door. I was certain it would be someone with good news about Appa. But to my disappointment, it was only Joo Dee—the first Joo Dee—holding one of our posters. When we asked her where she had been, she told us that she took a short vacation at a place called Lake Laogai. Weird! Then she told us that we were forbidden to put up posters. What CAN you do in this city? Anyway, I'm done listening to these people. It's obvious they don't want to help us, so we'll just help ourselves. "We don't care about the rules, and we're not asking permission. We're finding Appa on our own, and you should just stay out of our way!" I slammed the door in her face. "From now on we do whatever

我的思绪在飞速运转，我无法让它慢下来。 我在努力想下一步该怎么做这样我们才能找到阿柏。 我在试着理解为什么这个城市里没有人愿意谈论一场即将摧毁他们家园和世界的战争！这些人怎么了？ 卡塔拉、索卡、拓芙和我决定在整个城市张贴“野牛失踪”的海报，希望有人能在什么地方看到阿柏。 当我们回到家时，有人敲了前门。 我敢肯定会有人带来阿柏的好消息。 但令我失望的是，只有朱迪——第一个朱迪——拿着我们的海报。 当我们问她去哪里时，她告诉我们她在一个叫劳改湖的地方度过了一个短暂的假期。 奇怪!然后她告诉我们，我们被禁止张贴海报。 在这个城市你能做什么？ 总之，我不想再听这些人的了。 很明显他们不想帮我们，所以我们只好自己动手了。 “我们不在乎规则，也不征求许可。 我们要靠自己去找阿柏，你最好别挡我们的路！”我当着她的面关上了门。 “从现在起，我们做任何事情

it takes to find Appa." We headed out of the house, more determined than ever. Then—I couldn't believe it—Katara ran into Jet, this rebel we had met earlier in our travels. What's he doing in Ba Sing Se? Now that I think back on it, Katara kind of had a crush on Jet—until he put a whole innocent village in danger trying to fight the Fire Nation! That's when Katara decided that she wanted nothing to do with him. I don't mind that part at all. "I'm here to help you find Appa," said Jet. He told Katara that he had changed, that he had given up his gang. I know she doesn't trust him, but at this point I really need all the help that I can get. Jet led us to a warehouse where he had heard Appa had been taken. But when we got there, it was empty. At first Katara thought it was a trap, but then we found some of Appa's fur on the ground. "They took that big thing yesterday," said a voice from a dark corner of the building. A janitor pushing a broom stepped into the light. "Some rich guy on Whaletail Island bought him—maybe for a zoo, or maybe for the meat." FOR THE MEAT! I have to sit down. This feeling in my stomach is not good.… The idea of someone buying Appa for meat made me nauseous and furious

找到阿柏。”我们走出屋子，比以往任何时候都更加坚定。 然后——我简直不敢相信——卡塔拉碰到了杰特，我们之前在旅行中遇到的那个叛逆者。 他在永固城做什么？ 现在回想起来，卡塔拉有点喜欢上了喷气机——直到他为了对抗烈火国把整个无辜的村庄置于危险之中！从那时起，卡塔拉决定她不想和他有任何关系。 我一点也不介意那部分。 “我是来帮你找阿柏的。”杰说。 他告诉卡塔拉，他已经改变了，他已经放弃了他的帮派。 我知道她不信任他，但现在我真的需要所有我能得到的帮助。 杰特把我们带到一个仓库，他听说阿柏被带走了。 但当我们到那里的时候，它是空的。 一开始卡塔拉以为这是个陷阱，但后来我们在地上发现了一些阿柏的皮毛。 “他们昨天拿走了那个大家伙。”一个声音从大楼黑暗的角落里传来。 一个推着扫帚的看门人走进了灯光里。 “鲸尾岛上的某个富人把它买了下来——可能是为了动物园，也可能是为了肉。” 为了肉！我得坐下了。 我胃里的这种感觉不太好。一想到有人把阿柏买来当肉吃，我就感到恶心和愤怒

at the same time. Appa is the last of a noble, proud breed, not somebody's dinner. I wasn't going to let anything happen to him! "We've got to get to Whaletail Island right away!" Sokka looked it up on his map and discovered that it was really far away, back near the South Pole. But I don't care how far away it is or how long it takes to get there. If there's a chance to find Appa, we have to take it. On our way out of the warehouse, we ran into the members of Jet's gang, who told us that Jet had been arrested and dragged away by the Dai Li a few weeks earlier. Jet denied it and looked at them like they were crazy. He also denied being part of the gang altogether. Toph is kind of like a human lie detector, and she studied their heartbeats and breathing patterns and told us that both Jet and his gang friends were telling the truth. "They both THINK they're telling the truth," Sokka realized suddenly. "That's because Jet's been brainwashed by the Dai Li!" We grabbed Jet and brought him back to his apartment, where we tried to jog his memory. "The Dai Li must have sent Jet and that janitor to mislead us," Katara said.

同时。阿柏是高贵骄傲的最后一只，不是别人的晚餐。 我不会让他出任何事的！“我们得马上去鲸尾岛！”索卡在地图上查了一下，发现它真的很远，在南极附近。 但我不在乎它有多远，或者需要多长时间才能到达那里。 只要有机会找到阿柏，我们就得抓住。 在我们离开仓库的路上，我们遇到了杰特团伙的成员，他们告诉我们杰特几周前被戴笠逮捕并拖走了。 杰特否认了，看着他们，好像他们疯了一样。 他还否认自己是该团伙的一员。 拓芙有点像人类测谎仪，她研究了他们的心跳和呼吸模式然后告诉我们杰特和他的帮派朋友说的都是实话。 “他们都认为自己说的是实话，”索卡突然意识到。 “那是因为杰特被戴笠洗脑了！”我们抓住杰特，把他带回他的公寓，试图唤起他的记忆。 “戴笠一定是派了杰特和那个看门人来误导我们的，”卡塔拉说。

That made perfect sense! They wanted us out of Ba Sing Se, because we were stirring up trouble with our talk about the war, so they brainwashed Jet to lead us far away. "I bet they still have Appa right here in the city!" I said, feeling hopeful again. "Maybe he's in the same place they took Jet!" I leaned in close to Jet. "Where did they take you?" "Nowhere!" he cried, squirming in his chair. "I don't know what you're talking about!" Katara used the water from her pouch and formed a sparkling band of healing energy around Jet's head to jog his memory. Slowly he began to relax. "They took me to Dai Li headquarters," he said finally. "It was underwater, under a lake." "Joo Dee said she went on a vacation to Lake Laogai," Sokka recalled. "That's it!" Jet cried. "Lake Laogai!" I'm certain now that's where we'll find Appa. I hope that we won't be too late. I don't know what I'll do if—NO, Aang, don't think that way! We WILL find Appa, and he'll be all right. Sokka, Katara, Toph, Momo, and I traveled to Lake Laogai, along with Jet and two members of his

这很有道理！他们想把我们赶出永固城，因为我们谈论战争会惹是生非，所以他们给杰特洗脑，让我们离开。 “我敢打赌，他们现在还把阿柏关在城里！”我说，又充满了希望。 “也许他在他们带走杰特的地方！”我靠近杰特。 “他们把你带到哪儿去了？”“哪儿也不去！”他叫道，在椅子上扭动着身子。 “我不知道你在说什么！”卡塔拉用她袋子里的水在杰特的头周围形成了一个闪闪发光的治疗能量带，唤醒了他的记忆。 慢慢地，他开始放松下来。“他们把我带到戴笠总部，”他最后说。 “它在水下，在一个湖的下面。” “朱迪说她去劳改湖度假了，”索卡回忆说。 “就是这样!”飞机哭了。“湖老街!”我确定我们能在那里找到阿柏。 我希望我们不会太迟。 我不知道我该怎么办-不，安昂，别这么想！我们会找到阿柏的，他会没事的。 索卡、卡塔拉、拓芙、莫莫和我，以及杰特和他的两个成员一起去了劳改湖

gang, Longshot and Smellerbee. It was a big, beautiful lake surrounded by a thick woods. But there was no sign of a headquarters or any kind of passageway leading under the water. Then Toph found a rock hatch in the water at the edge of the shore. She Earthbended the hatch open and revealed a stairway leading down under the lake. We hurried down the stairs and into a tunnel. "It's coming back to me now," Jet said. "I think there's a cell big enough to hold Appa just ahead." We're so close now. He might even be right around the next bend! We made our way along the tunnel, which had rooms and holding cells on either side. In one of the rooms I saw a bunch of women all being trained— brainwashed, actually—to be Joo Dees. It was so creepy, like they were all preprogrammed robots. Yuck! Continuing along the tunnel, we soon came to a door where Jet stopped. "I think it's through here," he said, flinging open the door. Wait a second—this isn't Appa's cell. It's a room filled with Dai Li agents. There's Long Feng! Did Jet lead us into a trap, or did he just make an honest mistake? "By breaking into our headquarters you have made

长枪和臭蜂。 这是一个大而美丽的湖，周围是茂密的树林。 但没有任何总部的迹象，也没有任何通往水下的通道。 然后，拓芙在岸边的水里发现了一个岩石舱口。 她把舱门打开，露出一条通向湖底的楼梯。 我们匆匆下楼梯，进入隧道。 “我现在想起来了，”杰特说。 “我想前面有一个足够大的牢房，可以关下阿柏。” 我们现在很接近了。他甚至可能就在下一个拐弯处！我们沿着隧道往前走，隧道的两边都是房间和拘留室。 在其中一个房间里，我看到一群女人都在接受训练——实际上是被洗脑——成为朱蒂。 太恐怖了，就像他们都是预编程的机器人。 讨厌的东西!我们继续沿着隧道走，很快来到一扇门前，杰特停了下来。 “我想是从这里出去的。”他说着，猛地打开了门。 等等，这不是阿柏的手机。 房间里全是戴笠特工。 那是长风！是杰特把我们引入了陷阱，还是他只是无心之过？ “通过闯入我们的总部，你做了