Chapter 1

It's now or never. Minecraft IronSword Academy number two by Caleb Zane Hewitt. Read for you by Keeler Lee.

机不可失，时不再来。Caleb Zane Hewitt的《Minecraft IronSword Academy》第二部。 基勒·李为你朗读。

Prologue Eek loved the Nether! He decided this exactly 0.25091 seconds after stepping through the portal. He knew because everything he saw seemed to be red: a river of lava shined bright light onto red dirt, red wood, even red leaves.

我爱地狱！他是在踏进传送门0.25091秒后做出这个决定的。 他知道，因为他所看到的一切似乎都是红色的：一条熔岩河在红色的泥土、红色的木头、甚至红色的树叶上闪耀着明亮的光芒。

Neat! he thought. Red was great. He thought of all the things he'd seen in his entire life that were red: poppies, roses, mushrooms, the eight hungry eyes of a spider in the night…nothing scary at all. He took his second step into the Nether with confidence. "Snort." He noticed something standing nearby at the same time it noticed him. It had a body like his human friends but a head with tusks and

整洁!他想。红色很棒。 他想起了他一生中见过的所有红色的东西：罂粟花、玫瑰、蘑菇、蜘蛛在夜里饥饿的八只眼睛……一点也不可怕。 他满怀信心地向地狱迈出了第二步。 “Snort。”他注意到有什么东西站在附近，同时它也注意到了他。 它的身体和它的人类朋友一样，但它的头长着獠牙和

floppy ears. "Urr-SNORT!" it grunted and stepped toward Eek. "A pleasure to meet you!" Eek waved his hoe in greeting. "You must be a piglin." "SNORT-uh-huh?" the piglin said. "Arrr-SNORT," another piglin responded, on Eek's left. Then three more snorted behind him. He was surrounded! "I completely agree," Eek said, to be polite. The first one was moving closer, sword at the ready. Eek moved quickly to his right so he could face all five piglins. They swiveled together, clearly unhappy with him. "I am sorry if I interrupted something. I did not mean to— Whoops!" There was no ground beneath his feet—he'd backed up to a cliff! Luckily, a block jutting out from the cliffside caught him, and he climbed back up. Two piglins in front were lifting their swords while the three behind were raising crossbows.

软盘的耳朵。“哼——哼！”它哼了一声，朝埃克走去。 “很高兴见到你！”埃克挥舞着锄头打招呼。 “你一定是一只小猪。”“哼——嗯哼？”小猪说。 “哼——哼，”另一只小猪回应道，在埃克的左边。 接着又有三个人在他身后哼了一声。 他被包围了！“我完全同意，”艾克礼貌地说。 第一个人走得更近了，剑已准备好。 埃克迅速向右移动，这样他就可以面对五只小猪了。 他们一起转过身来，显然对他很不满意。 “如果我打断了什么，我很抱歉。 我不是故意的——哎呀！”他脚下没有地面——他退到了悬崖边！幸运的是，从悬崖边上伸出来的一块石块抓住了他，他爬了回来。 前面两只小猪举着剑，后面三只小猪举着弩。

"Oh no!" Eek shouted. "Spiders are scary! Red can be bad!" He was in danger, and there was nobody to help him. He should have listened to his friends. Everyone was going to be so disappointed in him for dying! If he hadn't come to the Nether by himself, this never would have happened. Rattle, rattle. Eek's skeleton friend wandered up from behind him just as the piglins launched a volley of

“哦,不!”唷喊道。“蜘蛛很可怕！”红色可能是坏事！”他处于危险之中，却没有人帮助他。 他应该听他朋友的话。 每个人都会对他的死感到失望的！如果他没有自己来地狱，这事就不会发生。 喋喋不休,喋喋不休。伊克的骷髅朋友从他身后走了过来，这时小猪们开始了一波

arrows. Rattle, rattle. The skeleton was wearing the full set of golden armor Eek had given it and was already waving its sword. "No, skeleton! Don't do it! Get out of here!" The skeleton didn't listen. In a flash, it moved in front of Eek just as the piglins fired. The attack caused the skeleton to charge at the piglins, and the piglins turned their weapons on it instead. Again, they fired! Wump! Wump! Wump! The arrows hit the skeleton. Eek was unharmed, but the skeleton was gone in a poof of smoke. "No!" Its golden armor fell in a pile on the ground. And the piglins all turned to look at Eek. He would be next.

箭头。喋喋不休,喋喋不休。骷髅穿着伊克给它的全套金色盔甲，已经挥舞着宝剑。 “不,骨架!别这么做！滚出去！”骷髅不听。 就在小猪们开火的时候，它在一瞬间移到了艾克的前面。 这次攻击导致骷髅冲向猪群，而猪群却把武器对准了它。 他们又开枪了！Wump !Wump !Wump !箭击中了骨架。 埃克没有受伤，但他的骨架却在一阵烟雾中消失了。 “不!”它的金色铠甲散落在地上。 小猪们都转过身来看着埃克。 他将是下一个。