Chapter 5

Chapter 5 THE KIDS ARE IN TROUBLE. MAKE NO BONES ABOUT IT! Jodi's mind was reeling. Ten seconds ago, she had been so happy. She thought there had been a horse! She had immediately started thinking up sweet horse names and trying to remember if anyone had a saddle in their inventory. Now she and her friends were running for their lives from a skeleton horse and its creepy, arrow-shooting rider. A lot could change in ten seconds! "I'VE GOT THIS," Morgan said, and he pulled his beloved diamond sword from his inventory. Jodi held her breath as he charged the rider and took a

第五章孩子们有麻烦了。 毫无疑问！乔迪的脑子一片混乱。 十秒钟前，她还很开心。 她还以为有一匹马呢！她立刻开始想出一些可爱的马名，并努力回忆是否有人在他们的库存中有马鞍。 现在，她和她的朋友们正在逃命，逃离一匹骷髅马和它那可怕的射箭骑士。 十秒钟内会发生很多变化！“我有这个。”摩根说着，从他的物品清单中抽出他心爱的钻石剑。 乔迪屏住呼吸，看着他冲向骑手，拍了一张

mighty overhead swing…. And his sword bounced harmlessly off the skeleton horseman. "Oh no," Jodi said. Being unable to harvest resources was one thing. But if they couldn't harm hostile mobs, they were in real trouble. The skeleton horseman took aim at Morgan. At such a close distance, Morgan was an easy target. The arrow struck him, and he fell back, flashing red as he took damage. "OUCH!" he said. "That…that isn't fair!" In the gloom, Jodi saw movement. A figure

强大的头顶挥杆....他的剑从骷髅骑士身上弹回，没有造成伤害。 “哦，不，”乔迪说。无法获取资源是一方面。 但如果他们不能伤害敌对的暴徒，他们就真的有麻烦了。 骷髅骑士瞄准了摩根。 在如此近的距离，摩根很容易成为目标。 箭射中了他，他向后倒了下去，受伤时脸上闪着红光。 “哎哟！”他说。“那……那不公平！”在黑暗中，乔迪看到了动静。 一个图

stepped from a nearby copse of trees. And then another appeared from behind a broken stone pillar. She couldn't make them out until a sudden bolt of lightning provided a moment of light. There were three of them now. Of course! she thought. The lightning spawns two additional skeleton horsemen. And now they were all converging on Morgan. "THAT'S REALLY NOT FAIR!!!" he complained when he saw the two additional adversaries. Ash had darted forward. She grabbed Morgan by the shoulder and pulled him back. "Worry about what's fair later!" she said. "RUN AWAY AND LIVE TO COMPLAIN ANOTHER DAY!" "Up here!" Harper said, and she led the others up what was left of the castle's central staircase. Jodi waited long enough to make sure Ash and Morgan were coming; then she turned on her heels and ran after Harper. It was a long staircase, but not long enough. Soon the five of them had come to the stone platform at the very top of the tower. They stood in the open air, rain all around

从附近的树林里走出来。 然后另一个从一根破碎的石柱后面出现。 直到一道闪电照亮了她，她才看清了他们。 现在他们有三个人了。 当然!她想。闪电会产生两个额外的骷髅骑士。 现在他们都聚集在摩根身上。 “这真的不公平！！”当他看到另外两个对手时，他抱怨道。 阿什冲上前去。她抓住摩根的肩膀把他拉了回来。 “以后再考虑什么是公平吧！”她说。 “跑开，活到改天再抱怨！”“在这里!”哈帕说，然后她领着其他人走上城堡中央楼梯的废墟。 乔迪等了很久，确定艾什和摩根来了；然后她转身去追哈珀。 楼梯很长，但还不够长。 很快，他们五个人来到了塔顶的石头平台上。 他们站在露天，四周都是雨

them, and realized they'd arrived at a dead end. The horsemen wouldn't be far behind. "What do we do?" Po cried out helplessly. "WE CAN'T HURT IT!" Morgan placed a cobblestone brick on the ground. "Look! We can't break bricks, but we can still place them," he said. "WE NEED TO PUT UP A BARRIER. We can build a whole room around ourselves." "No, stop!" said Harper. "Think about it. IF YOU BUILD A ROOM AROUND US AND WE CAN'T REMOVE IT LATER, THEN WE'LL BE STUCK. Anything we build now is permanent!" "What do we do?" Po cried again, more desperate this time. "Jodi!" said Ash. "Any ideas? TELL ME YOU'VE COME UP WITH SOMETHING." Jodi's eyes went wide. "Me? Why me?" Ash stepped up to Jodi. Everyone else was panicking, but Ash looked eerily calm. "It's what you do best, Jodi. YOU THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX." Ash's belief in her made Jodi feel a little calmer.

他们，并意识到他们已经到了一个死胡同。 骑士们不会离我们太远。 “我们该怎么办？”阿宝无助地叫道。 “我们不能伤害它！”摩根在地上放了一块鹅卵石砖。 “看!我们不能打破砖块，但我们仍然可以放置砖块。” “我们需要设置一道屏障。 我们可以在自己周围建造一整个房间。” “不，住手！”“想想看。 如果你在我们周围建了一个房间，而我们不能移除它，那我们就会被困住。 我们现在建造的任何东西都是永久的！”“我们该怎么办？”阿宝又哭了，这次更绝望了。 “乔迪！”阿什说。“有什么想法? 告诉我你想出了什么办法。” 乔迪睁大了眼睛。“我? 为什么是我?”阿什走向乔迪。 其他人都惊慌失措，但阿什看起来出奇地冷静。 “这是你最擅长的，乔迪。 你能跳出思维定势。” 阿什对她的信任让乔迪觉得平静了一些。

She focused on the problem. Outside the box, she thought. Outside the box… "That's it!" Jodi said. "We don't want to box ourselves in. WE WANT TO BOX THE BAD GUYS IN. Build a box!" As she spoke, their skeletal enemies emerged from the staircase, leaping right into the middle of the platform. The riders' focus was still on Morgan. "I'LL KEEP THEM BUSY!" Morgan said, running back and forth. His attackers tried to follow with their bows, but Morgan was too quick. While the skeletons were distracted, Jodi and the others leapt into action. They stacked blocks as quickly as they could, as close to the horses as they dared. By the time the skeletal riders noticed what was happening, the blocks were too

她专注于这个问题。 在盒子外面，她想。 在盒子外面……“就是这样！”乔迪说。 “我们不想把自己封闭起来。 我们要把坏人关起来。 做一个盒子！”就在她说话的时候，他们那骨瘦如柴的敌人从楼梯上走了出来，直接跳到平台中央。 骑手们的注意力仍然集中在摩根身上。 “我会让他们忙起来的！”摩根边说边跑来跑去。 他的攻击者试图用弓跟上，但摩根动作太快了。 当骷髅们分心的时候，乔迪和其他人跳了起来。 他们尽可能快地堆起石块，尽可能地靠近马匹。 当骨骼骑手注意到发生了什么时，积木也注意到了

high to jump over. Jodi made a little staircase so that she could reach over the skeletons' head. She placed a final series of blocks on top—a lid for their box. She hopped back a few steps to admire their handiwork. It looked like a squat chimney made of a variety of mismatched bricks. "IT ISN'T PRETTY," Jodi said. "But it got the job done." "It sure did!" said Ash, and she gave Jodi a fist bump. "Good thinking, Jodi." "I can't believe I almost trapped us in an inescapable room," Morgan said. "It's like I have to learn a whole new set of rules." "It's temporary," Ash said. "WE JUST HAVE TO FIND THE EVOKER KING and get him to put everything back the way it was." "Uh, guys?" said Po. "I think I found him." Jodi followed Po's gaze over the side of the tower. There, in the distance, was a familiar sight: the obsidian words that the Librarian had once built as a warning: Beware the Evoker King!

跳得高。乔迪做了一个小楼梯，这样她就可以越过骷髅头。 她在上面放了最后一组积木——盒子的盖子。 她向后跳了几步，欣赏他们的手艺。 它看起来像一个矮矮的烟囱，由各种不匹配的砖块砌成。 “它不漂亮，”乔迪说。 “但它完成了任务。” “当然了！”阿什说着，跟乔迪碰了一下拳头。 “好主意，乔迪。”“我简直不敢相信我差点把我们困在一个无法逃脱的房间里，”摩根说。 “这就像我必须学习一套全新的规则。” “这是暂时的，”阿什说。 “我们只需要找到唤醒者之王，让他把一切都恢复到原来的样子。” “呃，伙计们？”阿宝说。“我想我找到他了。” 乔迪顺着阿宝的目光越过高塔。 在远处，有一个熟悉的景象：图书管理员曾经用黑曜石砌成的警告字：小心易醒之王！