Chapter 10

Chapter 10 Here, Piggy, Piggy. Where Are You Hiding? Don't Be Koi! H arper lowered her net down into Ironsword's outdoor pond. A large koi fish with orange and white scales bobbed up to the surface to investigate the disturbance. Its mouth wiggled open and closed in a friendly way, hoping for a snack.

第十章在这里，小猪，小猪。 你躲在哪里？不要做锦鲤！哈珀把网放下，放到铁剑的室外池塘里。 一条长着桔黄色和白色鳞片的大型锦鲤浮上水面，调查这起骚乱。 它的嘴友善地张开合上，想要吃点东西。

The air was calm. Most of the students had gone home, and the weather was nice. The grounds behind Ironsword were wide and green— this was one of the only places with shade because a big tree hung over the pond. The five of them all swished their nets around in the pool, collecting fallen leaves, branches, and trash blown into the water by the wind. Bloop. The koi fish bobbed back underwater. Harper looked at her own reflection next to it and smiled. She tapped the cool water with her finger, making perfect circular ripples. This is nice, she thought. A quiet moment to—

空气很平静。大多数学生都回家了，天气很好。 铁剑后面的场地宽阔碧绿——这是仅有的几个有树荫的地方之一，因为一棵大树悬在池塘的上方。 他们五个人都在池塘里挥动着网，收集被风吹到水里的落叶、树枝和垃圾。 杂音。锦鲤又在水下游了回来。 哈珀看着旁边自己的倒影，笑了。 她用手指轻拍着凉水，激起完美的圆形涟漪。 这太好了，她想。 一个安静的时刻

"HELP!" Harper tumbled forward and almost fell into the pool. Theo caught her arm and pulled her backward. The voice in her earbud kept yelling: "HELP! I'M SORRY, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO! I MESSED UP, AND NOW EEK IS IN DANGER—" Everyone around the pond was wincing. Harper was the first to answer. "Ash? Is that you? What's wrong?"

“救命!”哈珀向前一颠，差点掉进水池里。 西奥抓住她的胳膊，把她往后拉。 她耳塞里的声音一直在喊：“救命！我很抱歉，但我不知道该怎么办！我搞砸了，现在周有危险了——”池塘周围的每个人都在退缩。 哈珀第一个回答。 “灰?是你吗？怎么了?”

"There you are!" Morgan said. "Finally!" "I KNOW, I'M SORRY, BUT—" Ash took a moment to control her voice. "Eek is trapped. On treasure island." "Treasure…Island?" Theo asked, thinking of the book. "Yo-ho-ho?" "They're in a bastion," Jodi explained. Harper understood immediately. "He's by the treasure! Surrounded by lava. And you're not there?" "He jumped!" "I used a boat!" Eek added. "It was very cool, but now I am running around in circles on an island." "I don't have enough blocks to build a bridge," Ash continued. "Eek's already been hit once." "I am all right now, though! I am becoming a master of running around in circles on an island." Eek yelped. "Ouch! Perhaps it is not a perfect method." "I don't have much time. I can't think of anything. I messed up. I shouldn't have told him

“你在这儿！”摩根说。 “最后!”“我知道，我很抱歉，但是——”艾什花了一点时间控制自己的声音。 “Eek被困住了。在金银岛上。” “宝……岛?”西奥问道，想起了那本书。 “Yo-ho-ho ?”“他们在一个堡垒里，”乔迪解释说。 哈珀立刻明白了。 “他在宝藏旁边！”被熔岩包围。 你不在那儿吗？”“他跳!”“我用的是船！”唷。 “那很酷，但现在我在一个岛上绕着圈子跑。” “我没有足够的积木来建一座桥，”阿什继续说。 “我已经被击中过一次了。” “不过我现在没事了！”我要成为在一个岛上转圈的能手了。” 唷叫喊起来。“哎哟!也许这不是一个完美的方法。” “我没有多少时间。我什么也想不起来。 我搞砸了。我不应该告诉他的

to—I shouldn't have come in here, and—" Harper wasn't going to let Ash get stuck feeling bad. She didn't deserve it, and they had Eek to save. "What do you have?" She reached to grab her net, which had fallen into the water. "Gold. Two blocks of blackstone. A bunch of other random treasure. A ton of boats Eek put in my way back at the base—" Harper's net snagged on something at the bottom. She pulled up carefully—it wasn't stuck. It had caught something…a pigurine! A little piglet skipping rocks at the edge of a tiny lake.

我——我不该到这儿来的，而且——”哈珀不想让艾什陷入难过的境地。 她不应该这样，他们还得救埃克。 “你有什么？”她伸手去抓掉在水里的网。 “黄金。两块黑石。 一堆其他的随机宝藏。 在回到基地时，埃克把一吨船挡在了我的路上——”哈伯的网钩住了海底的什么东西。 她小心地停了下来——车没有卡住。 它抓住了什么东西……一只猪尿！一只小猪在小湖边跳石头。

Skipping rocks… "Ash! I know what you can do!" Harper exclaimed. "It's a big risk, but if anyone can pull it off, it's you." Ash leapt from the lowest level of the bastion, straight toward the lava. She watched carefully as she fell, and at the very last second dropped a boat. Thunk. She landed in the boat—which was already burning! The lava set the boat on fire immediately. If Harper was right, though, she had another second to… Jump again! And place another boat beneath her. Ash was the skipping rock. Fire raged around her on all sides, and she had no room for error! Jump, boat, land. Jump, boat, land!

“阿什！”我知道你能做什么！”哈珀喊道。 “这是一个很大的风险，但如果有人能成功的话，那就是你。” 火山灰从堡垒的最底层直扑向熔岩。 她小心翼翼地看着她掉下去，在最后一秒掉下了一条船。 铛。她降落在已经着火的船上！熔岩立即使船着火。 如果哈珀是对的，她还有一秒钟的时间……再跳一次！在她下面放另一艘船。 阿什是蹦蹦跳跳的石头。 四面八方都是火海，她没有犯错的余地！跳，船，着陆。 跳，船，上岸！