Chapter 10

Chapter 10 I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE... ALIST OF suSPeCTS. The next morning, Jodi's mind was racing faster than Baron Sweetcheeks on his hamster wheel. She sat drinking her milk on her favorite bench while her friends discussed what they'd seen the day before. "The Evoker King has to be a student," said Ash. "I'd say we have proof now." "I agree." Harper nodded. "No one else would be able to build replicas of the school and the bat house." "Right," said Po. "It must be a student. Or

第十章我用我的小眼睛窥探…… 嫌疑犯名单。第二天早上，乔迪的思绪比甜颊男爵在仓鼠轮上跑得还快。 她坐在她最喜欢的长椅上喝着牛奶，而她的朋友们则在讨论前一天的所见所闻。 “唤醒王必须是个学生。”阿什说。 “我得说，我们现在有证据了。” “我同意。”哈珀点点头。“没有人能够复制学校和蝙蝠屋。” “对，”阿宝说。“一定是个学生。 或

maybe a teacher…" "I'll bet it's that kid Theo," Morgan said. "He basically swore vengeance against us after that coral jewelry incident." "But that was after the Evoker King started messing with us," Ash pointed out. "And after the sixth VR headset went missing." "And I really think Theo means well," said Harper. "He just went about things the wrong way." "I'm just saying some of the teachers at this school could be secretly evil!" said Po, tapping his fingertips together like the villain in a cheesy sci-fi movie. "It's worth considering!" Sitting in silence, Jodi had suspicions of her own. Her unspoken suspicions weighed heavily on her heart. But she had to pursue them. She put on her large, lucky fedora. She flipped up the collar on her jacket. She pulled her spy journal from her backpack.

“我敢打赌是那个叫西奥的孩子，”摩根说。 “在珊瑚珠宝事件之后，他基本上发誓要报复我们。” “但那是在Evoker King开始捉弄我们之后，”Ash指出。 “在第六个VR头盔失踪之后。” “我真的认为西奥是好意。”哈珀说。 “他只是走错了路。” “我只是想说，这所学校的一些老师可能暗地里是邪恶的！”阿宝说着，像一部庸俗的科幻电影里的反派一样轻拍着指尖。 “这值得考虑！”乔迪静静地坐着，她自己也有怀疑。 她心里话里的怀疑沉重地压在她心头。 但她必须追求他们。 她戴上了她那顶大而幸运的软呢帽。 她把夹克的领子翻了起来。 她从背包里拿出她的间谍日记。

She slipped away while her friends continued their debate. They didn't even see her leave. Her first stop was the front office. She greeted the principal's assistant, Mr. Mellohi, and he smiled warmly in return. "What can I do for you, Jodi?" he asked. Jodi was always impressed that he knew the name of every kid at Woodsword. And she especially liked that he didn't care about the school's policy against wearing hats. "My brother, Morgan, misplaced his science textbook," she said. "I'm trying to help him find it. You know, retracing his steps? Could

当她的朋友们继续辩论时，她悄悄溜走了。 他们甚至没有看到她离开。 她的第一站是前台。 她向校长助理梅洛伊先生打了个招呼，梅洛伊先生也报以热情的微笑。 “我能为你做什么，乔迪？”他问。 乔迪总是对他印象深刻，因为他知道森林剑每个孩子的名字。 她特别喜欢他不关心学校禁止戴帽子的规定。 “我哥哥摩根把他的科学课本放错了地方，”她说。 “我想帮他找到它。 你知道，追溯他的足迹？ 可以

you tell me what room he was in for detention yesterday?" The man chuckled. "Morgan? In detention?" He shook his head. "Your brother isn't much of a rule breaker. But I don't have to tell you that." "Oh, I don't know," Jodi said, frowning. "Sometimes people surprise you." The unwelcome surprises kept turning up as Jodi followed the clues. A group of Ash's fellow Wildling Scouts told her there hadn't been a troop meeting since the weekend. Po's teammate Ricky told her basketball practice had been canceled because the schoolwide glitch had made it impossible to lower the automated hoops from the ceiling. She called Harper's phone and got an error message. If Harper had gone with her mom to have the phone fixed, the errand hadn't been successful. And Harper had joined them in Minecraft after she'd left school for that errand. Why would she

你能告诉我他昨天被关在哪个房间吗？”那人咯咯地笑了。 “摩根?在拘留?”他摇了摇头。 “你哥哥不太会破坏规矩。 但我不必告诉你这些。” “哦，我不知道，”乔迪皱着眉头说。 “有时候人们会让你大吃一惊。” 乔迪循着线索，不受欢迎的惊喜不断出现。 阿什的一群野人侦察兵同伴告诉她，从周末开始就没有开过部队会议。 阿宝的队友里奇告诉她，篮球训练取消了，因为学校的小故障导致无法从天花板上放下自动篮筐。 她打给哈珀的电话，却收到一条错误信息。 如果哈珀和她妈妈一起去修电话，她的任务就不会成功。 哈珀离开学校去做这件事后，也加入了他们的行列。 她为什么要

come back so long after the final bell? It didn't add up. Or it did add up, and Jodi just didn't like the answer. She wrote her findings in her spy notebook.

下课铃声响了这么久才回来？ 这不合情理。或者是说得通，乔迪只是不喜欢这个答案。 她把她的发现写在她的间谍笔记本上。

"Jodi? Is anything wrong?" She hadn't realized she'd been sitting still and staring hard at her notebook. Ms. Minerva's voice brought her back to her surroundings. The teacher was wheeling the chalkboard down the hallway while holding a steaming mug of coffee. "Why don't you help me with this and tell me what's on your mind?" the teacher suggested.

“乔迪- ?出什么事了吗？”她没有意识到自己一直坐着不动，目不转睛地盯着笔记本。 密涅瓦的声音把她带回了周围的环境。 老师端着一杯热气腾腾的咖啡，推着黑板走过走廊。 “你为什么不帮我一下，告诉我你在想什么呢？”老师建议道。