Chapter 2

Chapter 2 What do we do now? Aang was really upset. "Omashu always seemed untouchable," he said. "Up until now it was," I said. "Now Ba Sing Se is the only great Earth Kingdom stronghold left." "This is horrible," Katara said, "but we have to move on." "No," Aang insisted. "There are other people who can teach you Earthbending, Aang," she pointed out. "This isn't about finding a teacher. It's about finding my friend." Hard to argue with that, but we still had one little problem. How did we get inside? We couldn't exactly stroll into an occupied city and ask to see the king, who may or may not still be in power. That's when Aang found a secret passageway. Actually, it was a filthy, slime-ridden sewer. Aang opened the entrance and a wave of thick, green muck came pouring out. Oh, man, it was the most disgusting thing I've ever smelled! I thought I was going to be sick.

第二章我们现在做什么？ 安昂真的很难过。他说：“奥马舒似乎一直是不可撼动的。” “直到现在都是，”我说。 “现在，永固城是土强国唯一的堡垒了。” “这太可怕了，”卡塔拉说，“但我们必须继续前进。” “不，”安昂坚持道。“还有其他人可以教你御土术，安昂。”她指出。 “这不是找老师的问题。 而是为了找到我的朋友。” 这很难反驳，但我们仍然有一个小问题。 我们是怎么进去的？我们不可能走进一个被占领的城市，要求见见国王，他可能还在掌权，也可能不在掌权。 就在那时，安昂发现了一条秘密通道。 实际上，那是一个肮脏的，满是黏液的下水道。 安昂打开入口，一股浓密的绿色淤泥倾泻而出。 天啊，这是我闻过的最恶心的东西！我以为我要生病了。

Aang used Airbending to create a bubble for us to walk in as we made our way along the sewer pipe, but for some reason I still came out completely covered in stinky muck at the other end. The things I have to do to win a war. We popped out of a manhole on a quiet street in the city and I could barely breathe. Katara washed the muck off me with a Waterbending move, then Aang dried me off with an Airbending wind. That's when I noticed the little round, purple bug-type things attached to my face. "I'm doomed!" I yelled. "Some horrible poisonous sewer bugs are sucking the brains from my head! Help! Get them off! Ahh!" "Stop making so much noise," Aang scolded, reaching out for one of the bugs. "It's just a purple pentapus." Aang gently tickled one of the hideous leeches with his finger and it let go. As he was freeing the creatures, a group of Fire Nation soldiers showed up. Uh-oh. "What are you kids doing out past curfew?" one of them asked. Curfew? The Fire Nation has imposed a curfew on the city? This was horrible. I struggled to come up with a good answer fast, but Katara beat me to it. "We were just on our way home," she replied.

安昂用御气术制造了一个气泡，让我们沿着下水管道走进去，但出于某种原因，我在另一端出来时还是浑身是臭。 为了赢得一场战争我必须做的事。 我们从城市里一条安静的街道上的一个沙井里跳出来，我几乎无法呼吸。 卡塔拉用御水术洗去了我身上的污垢，然后安昂用御气之风吹干了我。 就在那时，我注意到我脸上粘着一个紫色的小圆虫。 “我是注定要失败的!”我喊道。“下水道里一些可怕的有毒虫子正在吸我的脑子！”的帮助!把他们弄下来！啊!”“别吵了。”安昂骂着，伸手去抓一只虫子。 “这只是一只紫色的五足动物。” 安昂用手指轻轻地挠了挠其中一只丑陋的水蛭，它就松手了。 正当他释放这些生物时，一群烈火国士兵出现了。 哦。“你们这些孩子过了宵禁还在外面干什么？”其中一人问道。 宵禁吗?烈火国对这座城市实施了宵禁？ 这太可怕了。我努力想尽快想出一个好的答案，但卡塔拉抢在我前面。 “我们只是在回家的路上，”她回答。

Not great, but at least it's an answer. Then a Fire Nation soldier pointed at me and asked, "What's the matter with him?" What? What did he mean? What's wrong with me? What was he talking about? "He has pentapox, sir," Katara said. "That's what those spots are on his face." Spots? On my face? What is SHE talking about? "It's highly contagious," Katara continued. I finally got it. Those purple whatchamacallits must have left spots on my face. It was time for a little acting. "It's so awful!" I moaned in my best sick-guy voice. I can be a great actor. "I'm dying! Dying!" "It's also deadly," Katara added. Now for a little more moaning and coughing. Ah, the soldiers have taken off! They're scared. Pentapox. Good one, Katara. And not a bad performance on my part, either. We continued along the streets. It was weird. Last time we were here this was a busy city with people everywhere. Now it's like a ghost town. Must be the curfew. Then from out of nowhere a family came strolling down the empty street, guarded by more Fire Nation

不是很好，但至少这是一个答案。 然后一个烈火国士兵指着我问道：“他怎么了？”怎么啦？ 他是什么意思？我怎么了？ 他在说什么？ “他得了五痘，先生。”卡塔拉说。 “这就是他脸上那些斑点的原因。” 斑点呢?在我脸上？她在说什么？ “这是高度传染性的，”卡塔拉继续说道。 我终于明白了。那些紫色的鬼东西一定在我脸上留下了斑点。 是时候表演一下了。 “太可怕了！”我用病人的声音呻吟着。 我可以成为一个伟大的演员。“我要死了!死亡!”“这也是致命的，”卡塔拉补充说。 现在是呻吟和咳嗽的时候了。 啊，士兵们已经出发了！他们害怕。 Pentapox。说得好，卡塔拉。 而且我的表现也不错。 我们继续沿着街道走。 这很奇怪。上次我们来这里的时候，这里还是个繁忙的城市，到处都是人。 现在它就像一个鬼城。 一定是宵禁。然后不知从哪里冒出来一家人，在更多烈火宗守卫下，在空荡荡的街道上漫步

soldiers. They must be important people. Just before I could figure out who they were, a low rumbling noise filled the air. I looked up and saw large boulders rolling down Omashu's mail chutes, heading straight for the family, which included a teenage girl and a young boy. Aang moved quickly, Airbending the boulders away from the family. To our surprise, the woman cried out, "The resistance!" The teenage daughter immediately began flinging flying daggers at Aang—at all of us, in fact! What a way to show gratitude. So the good news was that there must be some kind of organized resistance to the Fire Nation's takeover of the city. The bad news was that the girl with the special daggers thought we were part of it! And she's got good aim! It was time to run! As a dozen flying daggers zipped our way, the ground beneath us suddenly began to drop, and then stopped abruptly. We fell to the ground, and when I rubbed the dust out of my eyes I saw that we were underground, surrounded by a bunch of Earth Kingdom people. These guys were the resistance. They saved us.

士兵。他们一定是重要人物。 我还没来得及认出他们是谁，空气中就响起了低沉的隆隆声。 我抬头一看，只见巨大的石块从奥玛舒的邮筒滑道上滚下来，径直朝这家人飞来，其中包括一个十几岁的女孩和一个小男孩。 安昂迅速移动，用御气术把巨石从他们身边移开。 令我们吃惊的是，那个女人喊道：“抵抗！”十几岁的女儿立刻开始向安昂扔飞刀——实际上是向我们所有人！这是多么表达感激的方式啊。 所以好消息是一定有某种有组织的抵抗力量阻止烈火国占领这座城市。 坏消息是那个拿着特殊匕首的女孩以为我们是一伙的！而且她瞄得很准！是时候跑了！当十来把飞刀嗖嗖地向我们冲来时，我们脚下的地面突然开始下降，然后突然停止了。 我们倒在地上，当我擦去眼睛里的灰尘时，我看到我们在地下，被一群土强国的人包围着。 这些人是反抗军。 他们救了我们。

"So is King Bumi with you guys?" Aang asked. "Is he leading the resistance?" The look of surprise on everyone's faces was unexpected. "Of course not," the resistance leader said. "On the day of the invasion King Bumi surrendered." He WHAT? Now this Bumi guy is a little crazy, but he's an old friend of Aang's and I can't imagine anyone Aang trusts giving up his city so easily. But that's apparently what happened. "It doesn't matter now," the resistance leader added. "Fighting the Fire Nation is the only path to freedom." "Actually, there's another path to freedom," Aang replied. "You could leave Omashu." The Earthbenders gave us another surprised look, but they were willing to hear us out. It was my job to come up with a plan, something that would make the Fire Nation WANT everyone to leave. "You're all about to come down with a nasty case of pentapox." Throughout the city, Earth Kingdom citizens put pentapi on their faces and arms causing red spots to appear. "The spots make you look sick, but you have

“那么，布米国王和你们在一起吗？”Aang问道。 “他在领导抵抗运动吗？”每个人脸上惊讶的表情是出乎意料的。 “当然不是，”这位抵抗运动领袖说。 “入侵之日，布米国王投降了” 他什么?这个布米人有点疯狂，但他是安昂的老朋友我无法想象安昂信任的人会如此轻易地放弃他的城市。 但事实显然就是这样。 “现在无所谓了，”这位抵抗运动领袖补充道。 “对抗烈火国是获得自由的唯一途径。” “事实上，还有另一条通往自由的道路。”安昂回答。 “你可以离开奥马舒。”土宗们又惊讶地看了我们一眼，但他们愿意听我们把话说完。 我的工作是想出一个计划，一个能让烈火国想要所有人离开的计划。 “你们都要染上严重的五痘了。” 在整个城市，土王国的公民在他们的脸上和手臂上涂上五刺草，导致红色斑点出现。 “这些斑点让你看起来很恶心，但你确实有病

to act sick too," I advised. I gave them a few pointers, and then we were ready to put my brilliant plan into action. "Okay, everyone into the sick formation. Let's go!" Wouldn't you know it, the Fire Nation governor bought our scheme completely! He ordered all the "infected" people out of the city, but Aang stayed behind to find Bumi. I guess it doesn't matter what Bumi did to his city, Aang will stay loyal to his friend —even if he is insane! I helped the others set up camp just outside the city. Aang returned a while later, with no news about Bumi. Then we discovered we had another problem. The little boy whose family we had saved earlier from the boulders had followed us out, and it turns out that it was the family of the Fire Nation governor! The governor's son is cute, but he insisted on playing with my boomerang like it was a toy. "No. Bad Fire Nation baby!" I scolded. I took it away from him and he started screaming. I gave in. "Oh, all right. Here." Just then a messenger hawk flew into our camp with a scroll. "It's from the governor," Aang said. "He thinks we took his son. He wants to make a trade—his son for King Boomie,

也要装病。”我建议道。 我给了他们一些建议，然后我们准备把我的绝妙计划付诸实施。 “好了，大家排成病态队形。 我们走吧!”难道你不知道，烈火国的总督完全相信了我们的计划！他命令所有被感染的人离开城市，但安昂留下来寻找布米。 我想不管布米对他的城市做了什么，安昂都会忠于他的朋友——即使他疯了！我帮其他人在城外扎营。 过了一会儿，安昂回来了，没有布米的消息。 然后我们发现了另一个问题。 我们之前从巨石中救出的那个小男孩的家人跟着我们出来了，原来他是烈火国总督的家人！州长的儿子很可爱，但他坚持把我的回旋镖当玩具玩。 “没有。坏火宗孩子！”我骂。 我把它拿走，他开始尖叫。 我让步了。“哦，好吧。 在这里。”就在这时，一只信使鹰带着卷轴飞进了我们的营地。 “是总督送来的，”安昂说。 “他认为我们带走了他的儿子。 他想做笔交易，用他儿子换布米国王，