Chapter 5

CHAPTER 5 Lydia, Daniel, and Barkley had been wandering the upper floors for the past hour and weren't any closer to finding the source. Back in the kitchen, Abbi was starting to get a little motion sick from watching through her friends' cameras the whole time. "Don't you think the sound was louder near Wallis's room?" Daniel asked. "No, it was for sure louder near our rooms!" Lydia said. The twins visited so often that they had their own bedrooms. Most of the time, they just slept on the floor of Abbi's room, but Wallis always

丽迪雅、丹尼尔和巴克利在楼上转了一个小时，还是没有找到消息来源。 回到厨房，阿比开始有点晕了，因为她一直盯着朋友们的摄像头。 “你不觉得沃利斯房间附近的声音更大吗？”丹尼尔问。 “不，我们房间附近的声音肯定更大！”利迪娅说。 这对双胞胎经常来访，所以他们有了自己的卧室。 大多数时候，他们只是睡在阿比房间的地板上，但沃利斯总是

said there was no reason to have such a big house if no one was using it! "But we were just down our hallway!" Daniel said. Abbi rested her head on her fist. She was getting frustrated again. Even if she could see the waves on the graph, there would be no way to pinpoint the location from down here in the kitchen. If only she could be up there with them! "Dang elevator," she mumbled.

说如果没人住，就没有理由要这么大的房子！“但我们刚刚在走廊里！”丹尼尔说。 阿比把头靠在拳头上。 她又开始沮丧了。 即使她能看到图上的电波，也没办法在厨房里精确定位。 要是她能和他们在一起就好了！“该死的电梯，”她咕哝着。

Wallis walked in for another refill. "What was that, honey?" "Oh, nothing, Mom!" Abbi sighed. She didn't want her mom to feel bad about the elevator not working. It wasn't her fault the thing was ancient! On the tablet, Daniel and Lydia were still debating which way to go next. Wallis leaned over and waved at them through the screen. "How's the search going? Find Emory's ghost yet?"

沃利斯走进来又要续杯。 “那是什么，亲爱的？”“哦，没什么，妈妈！”艾比叹了口气。 她不想让她妈妈因为电梯坏了而难过。 那东西太古老了又不是她的错！在平板电脑上，丹尼尔和莉迪亚还在争论下一步该走哪条路。 沃利斯探过身来，隔着屏风向他们挥手。 “找得怎么样了？”找到埃默里的鬼魂了吗？”

Abbi muted her microphone, then poked her mom's arm. "Stop teasing! Lydia's still scared." "Who's teasing? I've been wanting to find a ghost here ever since I moved in!" she said. "What's the point of living in an old castle if it's not haunted, right?" Wallis ruffled her daughter's hair before grabbing a cookie from the counter and heading back to her office. "Hey! Hey, Abbi!" Daniel said. "I think we've got something!" She unmuted her tablet and sat forward. "What did you find?" The twins started running. The hallway's wood paneling and floral wallpaper blurred around them. Abbi felt queasy again, but she didn't want to look away and miss seeing whatever they were chasing. "Technically we didn't find anything," Lydia clarified. "Barkley did! He just took off all of a sudden!"

阿比把麦克风调静音，然后戳了戳妈妈的胳膊。 “别取笑!莉迪亚还在害怕。” “是谁戏弄?自从我搬进来，我就一直想在这里找个鬼！”她说。 “如果没有闹鬼，住在一座古老的城堡里有什么意义呢？”沃利斯揉了揉女儿的头发，然后从柜台上拿了一块饼干，回到了办公室。 “嘿!嗨,艾比!”丹尼尔说。 “我想我们找到东西了！”她把写字板调成静音，向前坐了坐。 “你发现了什么？”双胞胎开始跑起来。 走廊的木镶板和花墙纸在他们周围模糊不清。 阿比又觉得恶心了，但她不想把目光移开，错过他们追逐的东西。 “严格来说，我们什么也没找到。”莉迪亚澄清道。 ”巴克利!他突然就走了！”

That was strange! Barkley liked chewing and getting his belly scratched way more than running. "Barkley, wait up!" Lydia called. They both slammed to a stop once they reached Barkley. Abbi tried to get her bearings through the screen. Both Lydia and Daniel were leaning over, trying to catch their breath, so their cameras were pointed at the ground.

真奇怪！比起跑步，巴克利更喜欢咀嚼和挠肚子。 “巴克利，等等！”丽迪雅。 他们一到巴克利，就都猛地停了下来。 阿比试图通过屏幕确定她的方位。 莉迪亚和丹尼尔都俯下身来，试图喘口气，所以他们的相机都对着地面。

"What is it?" she asked, unable to wait. "What did he find?" Daniel stood up first. Abbi focused on his side of the screen. "Nothing," he said. "He just led us to the end of the hall. See? We're just at the elevator." Abbi's shoulders drooped. "A dead end." She could see through Lydia's camera that Barkley was still on alert, though! His tail was wagging, and his ears were pricked up. He looked ready to play. But why would he have run here for that?

“什么事？”她问，等不及了。 “他发现了什么？”丹尼尔先站起来。 阿比盯着屏幕的这一边。 “没什么，”他说。“他只是把我们带到了大厅的尽头。 看到了吗?我们刚到电梯。” 阿比的肩膀垂了下来。“一条死胡同。” 但她可以通过莉迪亚的摄像头看到巴克利仍然保持警惕！它摇着尾巴，竖起耳朵。 他看起来已经准备好上场了。但他为什么要跑到这里来？