Chapter 9

Chapter 9 OOMF. Princess Pulverizer grunted loudly as she tried once again with all her might to knock the guards out of the way. She pushed so hard that the worm crown fell from her head. But still the mole mountain did not move. OOMF. She grunted even more loudly, pushing harder. The guards wavered just a bit, then steadied themselves. OOMF! Princess Pulverizer threw her full body weight into the guards. And then... The wall of moles began to break apart! The creatures tumbled from one another's backs and began running in the opposite direction.

第九章哇！粉碎公主大声地哼了一声，再次使出全身的力气把守卫们推开。 她太用力了，以至于虫冠从她头上掉了下来。 可是鼹鼠山还是没有动。 粉丝朋友。她咕哝得更大声了，推得更用力了。 卫兵们稍稍动摇了一下，然后又稳住了。 OOMF !粉碎机公主把整个身体都砸向了卫兵。 然后……鼹鼠墙开始裂开了！动物们从彼此的背上滚下来，开始朝相反的方向跑去。

"Wow! I guess all those push-ups came in handy," Princess Pulverizer congratulated herself. She flexed her muscles proudly and hurried out of the room. Except it hadn't been the push-ups. In fact, Princess Pulverizer hadn't been the one to move the moles.

“哇!我想所有的俯卧撑都派上了用场。” 她骄傲地伸伸腰，匆匆走出房间。 只不过不是俯卧撑。 事实上，并不是粉碎机公主移动了鼹鼠。

Lucas had moved them! And he hadn't even had to flex a muscle. All he'd had to do was bring treats for the mole guards. He stood there outside the room, throwing slugs, centipedes, and ants down the long tunnel with all his might. And the mole guards were hurrying to scoop them up and scarf them down. Princess Pulverizer stared at Lucas in surprise. It was a brilliant plan. And he'd thought of it all on his own. "Am I happy to see you," Princess Pulverizer said. She looked at the crowd of mole guards chowing down on bugs. "Bringing them treats was a great idea." "No mole can refuse a juicy slug cluster," Lucas said. "The bugs weren't hard to find,

卢卡斯把它们搬走了！他甚至都不用动一下肌肉。 他所要做的就是给鼹鼠守卫带点吃的。 他站在房间外面，用尽全力把鼻涕虫、蜈蚣和蚂蚁扔进长长的隧道。 看守鼹鼠的人急忙把他们捞起来，把他们围起来。 粉碎机公主惊讶地盯着卢卡斯。 这是个绝妙的计划。这一切都是他自己想出来的。 “我很高兴见到你。” 她看着一群鼹鼠守卫在大嚼虫子。 “给他们带点心是个好主意。” “没有鼹鼠能拒绝多汁的鼻涕虫群，”卢卡斯说。 “虫子并不难找，

either. Even in the dark, I could feel them running around." "Why did you run off?" Princess Pulverizer asked him. "It would have been so much easier if you'd just stayed near the opening in the first place." "I was worried about you dueling Sir Surly," Lucas said. "I thought you might need my help fighting him off. So I went looking for a place where I could climb out." "I managed to beat him," Princess Pulverizer boasted. "He's our prisoner now. Dribble is guarding him." "Wow! You won your first duel!" Lucas congratulated her. "All by yourself." "Yup." Truthfully, the princess had had more than a little help from a snake, but she didn't feel the need to tell Lucas that. She doubted the snake would ever take any credit —seeing as how snakes can't talk. "How did you know I was down here? And how did you find me?" Princess Pulverizer

要么。即使在黑暗中，我也能感觉到它们在跑来跑去。” “你为什么跑掉？”普莱丽公主问他。 “如果你一开始就待在洞口附近，事情就会容易得多。” “我很担心你和萨利爵士决斗。”卢卡斯说。 “我想你可能需要我帮忙击退他。 所以我就去找一个可以爬出去的地方。” “我打败了他。” “他现在是我们的囚犯。运球在防守他。” “哇!你第一次决斗赢了！”卢卡斯向她表示祝贺。 “全靠你自己。”“是的。”说实话，公主从蛇那里得到了很多帮助，但她觉得没有必要告诉卢卡斯。 她怀疑蛇不会邀功，因为蛇是不会说话的。 “你怎么知道我在这儿？” 你是怎么找到我的？”公主粉磨机

asked Lucas. "You don't have a candle to light your way." "I couldn't see. But I could hear you asking the mole guards where they were taking you," Lucas explained. "Then I heard all that oomfing you were doing trying to get out of that room. I just followed the sound." "Where did you learn to do that?" Princess Pulverizer inquired. "When you spend as much time with your visor falling down over your eyes as I do, you figure out how to get along using your other senses." Princess Pulverizer laughed. Lucas did seem to have his visor down over his eyes a lot of the time. "We gotta get moving," Lucas told the princess. "It won't take the mole king long to figure out you've escaped. Come on, follow me." Even though Princess Pulverizer hated taking orders from anyone, she knew Lucas

问卢卡斯。“你没有蜡烛照亮你的路。” “我看不见。但我听到你在问鼹鼠看守他们要带你去哪儿。”卢卡斯解释说。 “然后我听到了你想要离开那个房间的声音。 我只是跟着声音走。” “你从哪儿学来的？”普莱尔公主问道。 “当你像我一样长时间戴着遮阳帽时，你就会用其他感官来思考如何与人相处。” 粉碎机公主笑了。 卢卡斯似乎很多时候都把面罩拉下来遮住眼睛。 “我们得走了，”卢卡斯对公主说。 “用不了多久鼹鼠王就会发现你逃走了。 来吧，跟我来。”尽管粉碎公主讨厌听任何人的命令，但她了解卢卡斯

was right. So she followed him. This time. As she ran off beside Lucas, Princess Pulverizer looked up, searching for an opening in the top of the tunnel. But there was no sign of daylight anywhere. And to make matters worse, Princess Pulverizer and Lucas soon reached a fork in the road. One path went to the right. The other to the left. Either one might lead them to freedom. Or straight back from where they'd come. There was no real way to tell. "I think we need to go this way," Princess Pulverizer said, pulling Lucas to the right. "No, I think it's to the left," Lucas countered. "Let's let the arrow settle this," Princess Pulverizer said. She began to reach into her bag. "It will bring us to where Dribble is waiting. I'm sure it—"

是正确的。于是她跟着他。 这一次。当她跑到卢卡斯身边时，粉碎机公主抬起头来，寻找隧道顶部的开口。 但是到处都没有天亮的迹象。 更糟糕的是，粉碎机公主和卢卡斯很快就走到了岔路口。 一条路向右。 另一个在左边。其中任何一个都可能使他们获得自由。 或者直接从他们来的地方回来。 没有真正的方法来判断。 “我想我们应该走这边。”普瓦瑞尔公主说着，把卢卡斯拉到右边。 “不，我想是在左边，”卢卡斯反驳道。 “让箭来解决这个问题吧。” 她开始把手伸进包里。 “它会把我们带到运球等待的地方。 我相信它——”