Chapter 9

CHAPTER 9 "She's holding something…," Lydia whispered. "It's a megaphone!" Daniel gasped, then clapped a hand to his mouth to muffle the sound. "She's the one who was making that awful noise?" Lydia shrugged. "Looks like it. Oh, she's moving! Come on, let's follow her!" They followed Amy as sneakily as possible. Abbi turned off the flashlight, forcing them to rely on Lydia and the night-vision binoculars to keep them on the right track. Lydia motioned for them to stop.

“她手里拿着什么东西……”丽迪雅低声说。 “这是扩音器！”丹尼尔喘着气，然后用手捂住嘴，捂住声音。 “她就是那个发出可怕声音的人？”丽迪雅耸耸肩。 “看起来是这样。哦，她在动！来吧，我们跟着她！”他们尽可能鬼鬼祟祟地跟着艾米。 阿比关掉了手电筒，迫使他们依靠莉迪亚和夜视望远镜来保持他们在正确的轨道上。 丽迪雅示意他们停下来。

"Why? What's she doing?" Abbi asked. She hated not being able to see what was happening for herself, but they only had one pair of binoculars! "I think she put something in the bushes up there." When they reached the bushes, Daniel fished around and found the megaphone! The three friends shared a fierce look. They had evidence now that Amy was up to something. They kept on her trail. Before long, the suspicious sound engineer met up with the other crew members. "You don't think Arthur knows she's faking those cougar noises, do you?" Daniel asked. He looked as if he didn't want to believe it. Abbi didn't want to believe it, either. There was only one way to find out.

“为什么?她在干什么？”艾比问道。 她讨厌不能亲眼看到正在发生的事情，但他们只有一副望远镜！“我想她在上面的灌木丛里放了什么东西。” 当他们到达灌木丛时，丹尼尔在周围摸索，找到了扩音器！三个朋友恶狠狠地瞪了一眼。 他们现在有证据表明艾米在密谋什么。 他们一直跟踪她。没过多久，满腹狐疑的音响师和其他剧组成员见了面。 “你认为亚瑟不知道她在假装那些熟女的声音，是吗？”丹尼尔问。 他看起来好像不愿意相信。 阿比也不愿意相信。 只有一个办法能知道。

"Did you hear that, everyone?" Arthur said into the handheld camera Steph was aiming at him. "That's the telltale sound of a cougar. Their screams are among the most easily recognizable of all big cats'." "They're also easily faked," Abbi said as she drove into the spotlight they had set up for the shoot. The crew members startled at her sudden appearance. Arthur recovered the most quickly. "Our little nature experts!" he said, as friendly as he'd been all day. But Abbi wasn't sure anymore if she could believe his friendliness. "How did you three get here? It's not safe to be wandering around in the dark."

“大家听到了吗？”阿瑟对着手持摄像机说，斯蒂芬正瞄准他。 “这是美洲狮的声音。 它们的叫声是所有大型猫科动物中最容易辨认的。” “它们也很容易被伪造，”阿比开车进入他们为拍摄设置的聚光灯时说。 机组人员对她的突然出现感到吃惊。 阿瑟恢复得最快。 “我们的小自然专家！”他说，就像他一整天一样友好。 但阿比不确定她是否能相信他的友好。 “你们三个是怎么到这儿来的？” 在黑暗中游荡是不安全的。”

Lydia pointed at the adults with the binoculars. "Then what was Amy doing a minute ago by herself?" Everyone turned to look at Amy. Her mouth dropped. "M-me?" Abbi crossed her arms. Her friends did the same on either side of her. "We saw you. With the megaphone you stashed in a bush." Abbi nodded to Daniel, who reached into the backpack hanging off her chair handles. "This megaphone," he said, pulling it out.

莉迪亚用双筒望远镜指着大人们。 “那艾米刚才一个人在干什么呢？”每个人都转过身来看着艾米。 她的嘴垂了下来。“小小的我?”阿比交叉着双臂。 她的朋友们在她的两边都做了同样的事。 “我们看见你了。用你藏在灌木丛里的扩音器。” 阿比向丹尼尔点点头，丹尼尔把手伸进挂在椅子把手上的背包。 “这个扩音器，”他说着，把扩音器拉了出来。

Steph angrily snapped their camera closed before saying to Amy and Arthur, "You two didn't go ahead with that foolish plan, did you? I told you it was a bad idea." Amy leaned against the nearest tree and sighed. "You did. We should have listened." "We didn't have a choice, okay?" Arthur said to Steph. "The plan will work. It has to work." Abbi looked between her friends. Lydia shrugged, and Daniel seemed as confused as she was. It was as if the crew members had forgotten their presence.

斯蒂芬生气地关上了他们的相机，然后对艾米和亚瑟说：“你们两个没有继续执行那个愚蠢的计划，是吗？ 我告诉过你这是个坏主意。” 艾米靠在最近的一棵树上叹了口气。 “你所做的。我们应该听进去的。” “我们别无选择，好吗？”阿瑟对斯蒂芬说。 “这个计划会奏效。它必须起作用。” 阿比看了看她的朋友们。 丽迪雅耸了耸肩，丹尼尔似乎和她一样困惑。 似乎机组人员已经忘记了他们的存在。

Daniel cleared his throat, drawing their attention again. "What plan?" "You were going to fake the whole thing," Abbi said. It wasn't a question. It was an accusation. The woods around them were so familiar to her. She had spent hours exploring them with her friends. She had spent nearly as many hours watching Wild Whereabouts, too, but suddenly the host of her favorite show didn't seem familiar at all.

丹尼尔清了清喉咙，再次引起他们的注意。 “什么计划?”“你打算假装整件事，”阿比说。 这不是一个问题。这是一项指控。 他们周围的树林对她来说是那么熟悉。 她和朋友们花了好几个小时探索这些地方。 她也花了差不多同样多的时间看《荒野的下落》，但突然间，她最喜欢的节目的主持人似乎一点也不熟悉了。