Chapter 6

Chapter 6 WILLAGERS WANT YOUR EMERALDS, NOT YOUR JOKES. "IS EVERYBODY READY?" asked Jodi. The kids were back in Minecraft, at the top of the mountain. The village was spread out below them. "Absolutely," said Morgan. "Let's—" He stopped short. "Po, what are you wearing?" Jodi turned around to look at Po—and she hopped in surprise! Ash actually screamed. "What?" said Po. He was dressed as a clown, with brightly colored hair and a big red nose. "Why are you dressed like that?" asked Ash. "I want the villagers to like us. AND EVERYBODY LOVES CLOWNS." "EVERYBODY DOES NOT LOVE CLOWNS," said Harper–emphatically.

村民们要的是你的绿宝石，而不是你的笑话。 “大家都准备好了吗？”乔迪问。 孩子们回到了我的世界，在山顶上。 村庄在他们下面展开。 “当然，”摩根说。 “咱们——”他突然停住了。 “阿宝，你穿的是什么？”乔迪转过身来看着阿宝——她惊讶地跳了起来！阿什尖叫起来。 “什么？”阿宝说。他打扮成一个小丑，有着鲜艳的头发和一个大红鼻子。 “你为什么穿成那样？”阿什问。 “我希望村民们喜欢我们。 每个人都喜欢小丑。” “不是每个人都喜欢小丑，”哈珀强调说。

"I don't know," said Po, rubbing his colorful clown chin in thought. "I think maybe you're wrong this time, Harper." Jodi giggled. Avatars couldn't actually roll their eyes, but she was pretty sure that was what everyone was doing. "Hey, what do you call a clown on a mountaintop?" asked Po. Jodi had no idea. "I give up," she said. "What do you call a clown on a mountaintop?" "Impatient!" Po said. "LET'S JUST GET DOWN THERE ALREADY." Morgan sighed. "All right," he said. "But if the villagers chase you off with torches and pitchforks, we are not with you." "I see," said Po. "And what if they make me their king and shower me with presents?" "THEN I'LL EAT MY EMERALD," said Morgan. "Is that really an option?" asked Jodi. "Because I'm sick of apples. Apples, apples, apples.

“我不知道，”阿宝一边说，一边揉着他那五彩缤纷的小丑下巴，陷入沉思。 “我想你这次可能错了，哈珀。” 乔迪•咯咯笑了。阿凡达不会真的翻白眼，但她很确定每个人都在这么做。 “嘿，山顶上的小丑叫什么？”阿宝问。 乔迪不知道。“我放弃了，”她说。 “你怎么称呼山顶上的小丑？”“耐心!”阿宝说。 “我们现在就下去吧。” 摩根叹了口气。“好吧，”他说。 “但如果村民们拿着火把和干草叉把你赶走，我们就不支持你了。” “我明白了，”阿宝说。“如果他们让我做他们的国王，给我大量的礼物呢？”“那我就吃我的翡翠，”摩根说。 “这真的是一个选择吗？”乔迪问。 “因为我吃腻了苹果。 苹果，苹果，苹果。

Ugh!" "Let's go," Ash suggested with a nod of her cube head in the direction of the village. "Maybe they have some real food." The area was bustling. Villagers moved about, honking at one another. If it was a language, it wasn't one Jodi had heard before. "They don't seem to even realize we're here," she said. She walked up to one in a brown robe. "Knock-knock." She got no response. "Oh man," she said. "They don't even go along with knock-knock jokes." She looked over at Po. "I think your outfit is wasted on them." Po made a sound like a deflating balloon. "This is mostly what I expected," said Morgan. "They're acting like normal villagers, although they look a bit old-school. Doc clearly isn't running the latest update." "MAYBE HER VR TECH DOESN'T WORK WITH NEWER VERSIONS OF THE GAME," Harper suggested. "Or maybe this belongs on our list of weird stuff." Morgan lowered his voice. "Keep an eye out.

啊!”“我们走吧。”艾什朝村子的方向点了点头，建议道。 “也许他们有真正的食物。” 这个地区熙熙攘攘。村民们走来走去，互相按喇叭。 如果这是一种语言，那也不是乔迪以前听过的。 “他们似乎都没有意识到我们在这里，”她说。 她穿着棕色长袍走向其中一个。 “能听懂。”她没有得到回应。 “哦，天哪，”她说。“他们甚至不同意敲门的笑话。” 她看着阿宝。“我觉得你穿在他们身上太浪费了。” 阿宝发出像气球泄气的声音。 “这基本上是我所期望的，”摩根说。 “他们表现得像普通村民一样，尽管他们看起来有点老派。 医生显然没有运行最新的更新。” “也许她的虚拟现实技术不适用于新版本的游戏，”哈珀建议道。 “或者这可能属于我们的奇怪事物清单。” 摩根压低了声音。“小心点。

IT'S POSSIBLE OUR THIEF IS HERE SOMEWHERE." The brown-clad villager Jodi had approached threw produce toward another villager. "Uh, is that the sort of thing we're looking for?" she asked. "Nope," said Morgan. "The ones in brown are farmers. They share food sometimes."

我们的小偷可能就在这里的某个地方。” 乔迪走近的那个穿棕色衣服的村民把农产品扔向另一个村民。 “嗯，这就是我们要找的东西吗？”她问。 “不，”摩根说。“穿棕色衣服的是农民。 他们有时会分享食物。”

"GRAB IT!" said Ash. "We might need that food." "Hey, check it out," Harper said. She was standing in front of another villager, who was wearing a black robe. "I blinked at this one and IT OPENED UP A TRADING MENU!" They had learned on their first adventure that blinking their eyes worked like clicking a mouse in the real world. It could open pop-up windows and more. She squinted at some new menu that only she could see. "THEY'LL TRADE US AN EMERALD FOR COAL. Do we have extra coal?" Jodi turned toward Ash. "Are you still keeping track?" she asked. Ash nodded. "That seems like a good trade to

“抓住它！”阿什说。“我们可能需要那些食物。” “嘿，看看，”哈珀说。 她站在另一个穿着黑袍的村民面前。 “我对这个眨了眨眼，它就打开了一个交易菜单！”他们在第一次冒险中就知道，眨眼睛就像在现实世界中点击鼠标一样。 它可以打开弹出窗口等等。 她眯着眼睛看一些只有她能看到的新菜单。 “他们会用一块祖母绿换我们的煤。 我们还有多余的煤吗？”乔迪转向阿什。 “你还在记录吗？”她问。 灰点了点头。“这似乎是一笔不错的交易

me. EMERALDS ARE CURRENCY HERE. We can trade our extra coal for an emerald, then use that emerald to buy something we need." "Gotcha," said Po. "EMERALDS FOR BIG RED CLOWN SHOES." "You're not spending the emerald I just got on clown shoes, Po," said Harper. She held up her shiny new jewel. "BUT MONEY IS FOR SPENDING." Jodi grinned at Morgan. "You know, it's been ages since we've been to the mall." Morgan grinned back. "All right," he said. "Let's go shopping!" Jodi lost track of time as she moved from one villager to the next. It was fun to see what each had to offer. They all agreed, however, that no one should actually buy anything without consulting the group first. Buying food made the most sense. But Jodi had seen farmland on the way into town. Couldn't they just take food from the fields for free? Did it count as stealing if these weren't real people? They were just bits of code, weren't they?

我。祖母绿在这里是流通货币。 我们可以用多余的煤炭换一块祖母绿，然后用那块祖母绿买我们需要的东西。” “抓到你了，”阿宝说。“用祖母绿做大红色小丑鞋。” “你不能把我刚买的祖母绿花在小丑鞋上，阿宝，”哈珀说。 她举起她那闪亮的新珠宝。 “但钱是用来花的。” 乔迪朝摩根咧嘴一笑。“你知道，我们已经很久没去商场了。” 摩根也咧嘴一笑。“好吧，”他说。 “我们去购物吧！”当乔迪从一个村民走到另一个村民时，她忘记了时间。 看看每个人都能提供什么很有趣。 然而，他们都同意，在没有事先咨询该组织的情况下，任何人都不应该购买任何东西。 买食物是最合理的选择。 但乔迪在进城的路上看到了农田。 他们就不能免费从地里拿食物吗？ 如果这些人不是真人，算不算偷窃？ 它们只是一些代码，不是吗？