10 DlG IT!

CHAPTER 10 DIG IT! Ha! Take that!" Rip yelled, practicing his fencing moves. "Hey, Rip!" Alexander called, running over. "Look what I found last night." He opened the notebook. "The worms were warning us about monsters called tunnel fish!"

第十章挖！哈!看箭!”里普喊道，一边练习他的击剑动作。 “嘿,撕裂!”亚历山大喊道，跑了过来。 “看我昨晚发现了什么。” 他打开笔记本。“那些虫子在警告我们当心一种叫隧道鱼的怪物！”

"Wow," Rip said, reading the page. "So the worms popped up to avoid becoming tunnel-fish bait?" He looked down. "But wait that means fish monsters are tunneling under us right now!" A dirt pile nearby trembled. Something underneath burrowed straight for the boys. Alexander stepped back. Rip drew his foil. POP! A purple fish burst from the ground. It had spiky fins, mean-looking eyes, and a mouthful of teeth. It would have been terrifying, except it was the size of a pickle. The tunnel fish chomped a worm near Alexander's foot and then dug back underground. Rip sneered. "Tunnel fish are weenies! We can just smoosh 'em!" He stopped sneering. "Hold on, Salamander... what's that?"

“哇，”里普一边读着那一页，一边说。 “所以蠕虫跳出来是为了避免成为隧道鱼的诱饵？”他低下头。 “等等，这意味着鱼怪正在我们下面挖地道呢！”附近的一堆土在颤抖。 下面有什么东西直接向男孩们钻洞。 亚历山大往后退了一步。瑞普抽出了他的剑。 流行!一条紫色的鱼从地上窜了出来。 它长着尖尖的鳍，凶狠的眼睛和满嘴的牙齿。 这本来会很可怕，但它只有泡菜那么大。 隧道鱼咬了亚历山大脚附近的一条蠕虫，然后挖回地下。 Rip冷笑道。“地道鱼是小的！”我们可以干掉他们！”他停止了嘲笑。 “坚持住，蝾螈……那是什么?”

Another dirt pile rumbled and then SPLOTCH! A silver tunnel fish the size of a dolphin shot out of the ground. It swallowed the purple fish in one bite and plowed back underground. Alexander gulped. "I guess they come in all sizes," he said. The boys looked at each other and took off running.

又一堆泥土轰隆作响，然后哗！一条海豚大小的银色隧道鱼从地下窜了出来。 它一口吞下了紫色的鱼，然后犁回地下。 亚历山大一饮而尽。“我猜它们有各种尺寸，”他说。 男孩们面面相觑，然后跑了起来。