Chapter 6

Chapter 6 It's Time for Some Theo- Rising. And, Uh, Harper-Rising. We're Thinking, Okay? W ith the skeleton contained, Theo and Harper needed to talk to Doc. Their science teacher was sorting through her experiments. The keep pile was already stacked high. The toss pile only had one thing in it: the who-knows-what that Theo had picked up before. It was still glowing blue. "How's it going, Doc?" Harper asked. "Fine." Doc set down a microwave with a big satellite dish on the top in the keep pile. "I'm thinking about what to do with these experiments. I hate to throw anything out."

第六章是西奥崛起的时候了。 还有，呃，Harper-Rising。我们在思考，好吗？ 在找到了骨架之后，西奥和哈珀需要和医生谈谈。 他们的科学老师正在整理她的实验。 那堆东西已经堆得很高了。 那堆杂物里只有一样东西：谁知道西奥之前捡到的是什么。 它仍然是蓝色的。 “怎么样，医生？”哈珀问道。 “很好。”博士把一个带大卫星天线的微波炉放在储藏堆的最上面。 “我正在考虑如何处理这些实验。 我讨厌扔掉任何东西。”

"Why does Principal Ferris get to decide what's junk and what's not?" Theo grumbled. Doc smiled. "We're guests here. Still, I have a feeling we'll figure it out. Was there something you wanted to talk about?" Harper nodded. "We want to ask you about the server. Is there any way to put its contents on the computers at this school?" "One of us could take it home, but…" Theo frowned. "We want everybody to get to play. And

“为什么有费里斯校长来决定什么是垃圾，什么不是？”西奥抱怨。 医生笑了笑。“我们是客人。 不过，我觉得我们会解决的。 你有什么想说的吗？”哈珀点点头。 “我们想问你关于服务器的问题。 有没有办法把它的内容放到学校的电脑里？”“我们中的一个可以把它带回家，但是……”西奥皱起了眉头。 “我们希望每个人都能玩。 和

there's something on this server we really don't want to lose." Doc looked apologetic. "I've already tried. Something in the data won't let me copy or edit anything. Ash can use the internet to connect in, but the game won't connect out at all. The buttons to turn it off don't even work!" Their Minecraft world was hosted in a large cube-shaped server with wires running to each computer they were using to play. Doc pushed the power button a few times, but nothing happened. "I thought that was strange. But I knew the server was important to you, so I used a portable battery to keep it running on the trip here." "So we don't know what happens if it loses power," Harper said. "Which means it's dangerous to move around," Theo added. All three of them were quiet for a moment as they thought about the problem.

这台服务器上有我们不想失去的东西。” 医生看上去很抱歉。“我已经试过了。 数据中的某些东西不允许我复制或编辑任何内容。 Ash可以使用互联网连接，但游戏根本无法连接。 关掉它的按钮都不工作了！”他们的《我的世界》世界托管在一个巨大的立方体服务器上，连接着他们用来玩游戏的每台电脑。 医生按了几次电源按钮，但什么也没发生。 “我觉得这很奇怪。 但我知道服务器对你很重要，所以我用了一个便携式电池来维持它的运行。” “所以我们不知道如果它失去动力会发生什么，”哈珀说。 “这意味着四处走动很危险，”西奥补充道。 他们三个人都沉默了一会儿，思考着这个问题。

"Why do we think the server's acting so strange?" Harper asked. "The storm?" Doc offered as she returned to her sorting. "Or the Fault," Theo mumbled as his own mind tracked down possibilities. Or the Evoker King did it on purpose! Harper realized. She grabbed Theo and led him over to the other side of the computer lab. Theo listened as Harper explained her idea. "Why would he trap Eek in there forever?" "Maybe it isn't forever. Eek is new, right? He's learning." Harper thought hard. "What was it the Evoker King said?" "He said, 'I wish to experience Minecraft from a new perspective.' "And Eek is that new perspective." "So if the Evoker King is stopping Eek from leaving the game on purpose, whatever lets him leave must be hiding in Minecraft somewhere."

“为什么我们认为服务器的行为如此奇怪？”哈珀问道。 “暴风雨吗?”医生问道，她又回去分拣了。 “或者是错误，”西奥喃喃自语，他自己的思想在寻找各种可能性。 或者是唤醒王故意这么做的！哈珀实现。 她抓住西奥，把他带到计算机实验室的另一边。 西奥听着哈珀解释她的想法。 “他为什么要把埃克永远困在那里？”“也许不是永远。 周是新的，对吧？他学习。” 哈珀苦思冥想。“唤醒王说了什么？”“他说，‘我希望从一个新的角度体验《我的世界》。而Eek就是这个新的视角。” “所以如果Evoker King故意阻止Eek离开游戏，那么让他离开的东西一定藏在Minecraft的某个地方。”

Theo tried to think about the game from the Evoker King's perspective. The Evoker King was a program, which meant Theo needed to think like a programmer. Minecraft was huge. There were so many things to do, and so many ways to play. You could spend years building or exploring. They only had a week. "In video games, when you want to have something happen at a certain time, you make a trigger," Theo thought out loud. "You can start a song whenever a character says a certain line or have an achievement unlock whenever you collect one hundred items."

Theo试图从Evoker King的角度去思考这款游戏。 唤醒王是一个程序，这意味着西奥需要像程序员一样思考。 我的世界是巨大的。有那么多的事情要做，有那么多的玩法。 你可以花几年时间去建造或探索。 他们只有一个星期的时间。“在电子游戏中，当你想让某件事在特定的时间发生时，你就会制造一个触发器，”西奥自言自语道。 “你可以在角色说出某句话时开始播放一首歌，或者在收集到100个道具时解锁成就。”

Po pulled one side of his headset off and called to his friends. "Harper and Theo, you should come over here!" Theo nodded. "One second, Po. If the Evoker King left behind a way for Eek to leave the server, it's probably a trigger like that." "And it has to be something we wouldn't do right away." Harper tried to think. Mine down to bedrock? Visit the Nether? "Something that meant we'd seen everything. Something like—" "The End!" Theo exclaimed suddenly. "There's no end in Minecraft, though." Harper shook her head. "You can do things forever!" "No, not the end of Minecraft. The End! The dimension where you battle the Ender Dragon and see the credits. We've never been there before, at least not as a group."

阿宝摘下耳机的一边，向他的朋友们喊。 “哈珀和西奥，你们应该过来一下！”西奥点点头。 “等一下，阿宝。如果Evoker King为Eek留下了离开服务器的方法，那么这可能就是一个触发器。” “而且必须是我们不会马上做的事情。” 哈珀试着思考。挖到基岩？ 参观阴间？“这意味着我们什么都见过了。 大概是——”“末日！”西奥突然叫道。 “但《我的世界》是没有尽头的。” 哈珀摇了摇头。“你可以永远做下去！”“不，这不是《我的世界》的终结。 结束!你与末影龙战斗并看到演职员表的维度。 我们以前从未去过那里，至少没有作为一个团队去过。”