Chapter 2

Chapter 2 Thinking Outside the Box Is Easy! Most Things Are Outside of Boxes. Unless You're Moving Far Away, of Course. A sh's merit badge sash was full. She'd been in the Wildling Scouts for years, but in the last year, she'd earned more patches than ever before. They were arranged in rows down the front and back: patches for sailing boats, training dogs, selling cupcakes, hiking, cleaning nature trails, lighting campfires, tap dancing, reciting one hundred numbers of pi, playing the bugle, reading, saying French expressions of surprise, and more.

第二章跳出思维定势很容易！大多数东西都在盒子之外。 当然，除非你要搬到很远的地方。 一只狗的功绩徽章带满了。 她在野人侦察兵中待了很多年，但在去年，她获得的勋章比以往任何时候都多。 他们从前面到后面排成一排：帆船、训练狗、卖纸杯蛋糕、徒步旅行、打扫自然小径、点燃篝火、踢踏舞、背诵圆周率的100个数字、吹号、读书、说法语表达惊讶等等。

"Sacré bleu!" Ash cried. She hated the idea of ever putting her sash into a cardboard box. When she joined the scouts, she never dreamed she'd fill the whole thing. This sash had seen her through two different scout troops, and now she was moving again. Three times in less than three years. She was with this school and this troop for the shortest time yet. Looking at the sash made her feel proud but a little sad. She decided to keep it on.

“减少蓝色!”灰哭了。她讨厌把她的腰带放进纸板箱里。 当她加入童子军的时候，她从来没有想过她能填满这一切。 这条腰带曾帮助她穿过两支不同的侦察兵部队，现在她又要行动了。 在不到三年的时间里三次。 她在这所学校和这支部队待的时间是最短的。 看着这条腰带，她感到骄傲，但又有点悲伤。 她决定继续戴着它。

Brrrrrip! She unrolled tape across the top of the box and sealed it. With a squeaky marker she wrote scout stuff, then picked up the box and looked around the room for the perfect place to stack it. She was treating her moving boxes like Minecraft blocks: she'd made a tiny house, a little bridge, a simple tower—this lighter box would be the perfect top to a big, blocky chair. She reached up on her tiptoes to set it down carefully, then plopped onto her cardboard seat. Not as good as it would be in Minecraft, but not too bad. Speaking of Minecraft…shouldn't her friends be out of school by now? They needed to log in quickly if they were going to stay on track.

Brrrrrip !她在盒子的顶部展开胶带，把它封好。 她用一支吱吱作响的马克笔写了一些童子军的东西，然后拿起盒子，环顾房间，寻找一个完美的地方堆放它。 她把她的移动盒子当成了《我的世界》里的积木：她做了一个小房子，一座小桥，一个简单的塔——这个打火机盒子将是一个大方块椅子的完美顶部。 她踮起脚尖小心地把它放下，然后扑通一声坐在她的硬纸板座位上。 虽然不如《我的世界》那么好，但也不算太糟。 说到《我的世界》，她的朋友们现在不应该已经放学了吗？ 他们需要快速登录，如果他们想要保持轨道。

Back when Ash was a student at Woodsword, their science teacher, Doc Culpepper, had introduced them to a version of Minecraft with some unique features. Strangest among them was the existence of the Evoker King, a dangerous artificial intelligence who would have taken over all of Minecraft if they hadn't stopped his plan. Ash and her friends helped the Evoker King see the error of his ways. But his feelings were too big for his programming, and he broke into several pieces of code. When the team finally recombined his data, he didn't come back to life: he was reborn as a new being. An Evoker Kid that they nicknamed Eek. Now Eek was in danger: he was trapped inside the game! The server they had brought over from Woodsword was damaged in the big storm. Doc Culpepper had carefully brought it to Ironsword, but the server couldn't move around safely anymore. To make matters worse, Principal Ferris was not a fan of storm-damaged experiments, and

当Ash还是Woodsword的学生时，他们的科学老师Doc Culpepper向他们介绍了一个具有一些独特功能的Minecraft版本。 其中最奇怪的是Evoker King的存在，这是一个危险的人工智能，如果他们没有阻止他的计划，他将接管整个Minecraft。 阿什和她的朋友们帮助Evoker国王认识到自己的错误。 但是他的感情对他的编程来说太大了，他把代码分成了几段。 当研究小组最终重新组合他的数据时，他并没有死而复生：他是作为一个新生命重生的。 一个被戏称为Eek的Evoker Kid。 现在Eek有危险了：他被困在游戏里了！他们从森林之剑带来的服务器在大风暴中损坏了。 卡尔佩珀博士小心翼翼地把它带到铁剑，但服务器再也不能安全地移动了。 更糟糕的是，费里斯校长不喜欢被风暴破坏的实验，而且

he was going to throw it away at the end of the week. The team believed Eek would be able to leave the server after they got to the End and defeated the Ender Dragon. On Monday, they'd made it all the way to the Nether. It was Tuesday now, which meant they only had four more afternoons to make it through one of Minecraft's hardest challenges. Ash's new school didn't start until next week, but it was dangerous to adventure alone. When Morgan's, Harper's, and Theo's avatars were defeated, they couldn't log back in. She, Jodi, and Po were the only players left. Sticking with a group was the safe way forward. But the group was late. Ash checked her phone: no messages, nothing. She knew they wouldn't just forget about Eek, which meant something was wrong. But there was nothing she could do if they weren't talking to her.

他打算在周末把它扔掉。 团队相信Eek能够在他们到达终点并击败末影龙后离开服务器。 星期一，他们一路来到了尼瑟斯。 现在是星期二，这意味着他们只有四个下午的时间来完成《我的世界》中最艰难的挑战之一。 阿什的新学校下周才开学，但独自去冒险是很危险的。 摩根，哈珀和西奥的虚拟化身被打败后，他们无法重新登录。 她、乔迪和阿宝是仅剩的三名选手。 和一群人在一起是安全的前进之路。 但这群人迟到了。阿什查看了一下手机：没有消息，什么都没有。 她知道他们不会忘记埃克，这就意味着出事了。 但如果他们不跟她说话，她什么也做不了。

At the very least, she could log in and check on him. She moved to her desk and put on her headset and microphone. She typed in her username and password so that she could connect to the server remotely.

至少，她可以登录查看他的情况。 她走到办公桌前，戴上耳机和麦克风。 她输入了自己的用户名和密码，以便远程连接到服务器。