Chapter 16

CHAPTER 16 Bob ran up to the very top of his tree to get a better look. "Merle's flying toward a man in a suit!" he reported down to Pearl. Pearl's heart sank. "Is he wearing sunglasses?" she shouted back up. "Yes! How did you know?" Pearl needed to think fast. Michael, Mrs. Gomez, and Jane were still at school. Dr. Gomez was still at work. "What do I do? What do I do?!" She looked back over her shoulder into Michael's bedroom and saw the drone she had been piloting. Taking a deep breath, she scurried from the windowsill back into the room. "Where are you going?" Bob called out. "Merle's going the other way!" Merle, in his drone prison, was getting closer and closer to the man in the suit and sunglasses. His remote was useless. Merle's only way to escape was to jump, but he was way too high. "I wish I were Glaucomys volans!" Merle cried, recalling the scientific name for the Southern flying squirrel. "Gliding now would be just fine!!!"

鲍勃跑到树顶，想看得更清楚些。 “莫尔朝一个穿西装的人飞去了！”他向楼下的珠儿报告。 珠儿的心一沉。“他戴墨镜了吗？” “是啊!你怎么知道的？”珀尔需要快速思考。 迈克尔、戈麦斯太太和简还在学校。 戈麦斯医生还在工作。 “我该怎么办？”我该怎么办？！”她回头看了看迈克尔的卧室，看到了她一直在驾驶的无人机。 她深吸了一口气，从窗台上匆匆跑回房间。 “你要去哪儿？”鲍勃喊道。 “莫尔往另一边去了！”莫尔在他的无人机监狱里，离那个穿西装戴墨镜的人越来越近。 他的遥控器没用了。莫尔唯一的逃生方法就是跳下去，但他太高了。 “我希望我是格劳科姆的volans!”梅尔回忆起南方鼯鼠的学名，哭了起来。 “现在滑翔就好了！！”

WHRRRRR! Pearl, piloting her drone, zipped out of the window, racing toward Merle. "Yeah!" cheered the Tennessee squirrels. At that moment, Michael, returning home from school, turned the corner onto his street. Hearing drone engines, he looked up and saw Pearl. "Pearl?!" he shouted. "What are you doing?!" "I'm saving Merle!" she shouted back. Suddenly, Pearl's look of determination turned to terror as she realized she no longer had control over her craft. She, too, was being reeled in by the man in the suit and sunglasses!

WHRRRRR !珠儿驾驶着她的无人驾驶飞机，飞快地冲出窗户，奔向莫尔。 “耶！”田纳西松鼠欢呼道。 就在这时，迈克尔从学校回家，拐了个弯，来到了他住的那条街。 听到无人机的引擎声，他抬起头，看见了珠儿。 “珠儿？！”他喊道。“你在干什么？！”“我在救莫尔！”她喊道。 突然，当珠儿意识到她已经无法控制自己的船时，她那坚定的表情变成了恐惧。 她也被那个西装革履、戴着墨镜的男人缠住了！

she screamed. "What's happening?!" Michael called out, not able to see the man from his vantage point. The Tennessee squirrels made a terrible racket shouting down at Michael, trying to tell him what was happening. Unfortunately, Michael did not speak squirrel and so made out only a cacophony of panicky squeaks.

她尖叫起来。“发生什么事情了? !”迈克尔喊道，从他的有利位置看不见那个人。 田纳西的松鼠们对着迈克尔大声喊叫，试图告诉他发生了什么事。 不幸的是，迈克尔不会说松鼠语，所以只能发出一阵惊慌的吱吱声。