Chapter 7

Chapter 7 Nine Out of Ten Piglins Agree: The Best Seat in the House…Is a Boat! Nothing was going on. Ash muted her connection to the others for a moment and groaned where only Eek could hear. Their simple Nether base was done several times over and had a boat in every open space. She'd added three extra stone walls around it—she told Eek it was for safety, but really she just needed something to do. There was another burst of laughter on the line from the others at Ironsword. Ash sighed. Eek jumped on top of the fourth safety wall in progress and looked down at her. "What is wrong, Ash?"

第7章十有八九的小猪一致认为：房子里最好的座位是船！什么也没发生。 艾什暂时停止了和其他人的联系，呻吟着，只有伊克能听到。 他们简单的尼德斯基地做了好几次，每个开放空间都有一艘船。 她在它周围又加了三堵石墙——她告诉艾克这是为了安全，但实际上她只是需要做点什么。 铁剑城的其他人又发出一阵笑声。 灰叹了口气。埃克跳上正在进行中的第四堵安全墙，低头看着她。 “怎么了，阿什？”

"Nothing." Ash placed another block. "Oh, wow!" Eek said. "Neat!" "What's neat?" "I do not think I have ever seen lying before." Eek sounded impressed. "It is amazing to watch." Ack! She was not expecting him to notice. "I wasn't lying! Nothing's wrong!" "Wow! I did not know I had this sensor. There is a part of my brain that is saying Lie detected! over and over." He paused. "Wait, perhaps it is an error. Try telling the truth this time."

“没什么。”阿什又放了一块。 “哦,哇!”唷说。“整洁!”“简洁是什么?”“我想我以前从未见过说谎。” 埃克听起来印象深刻。“看着真是太棒了。” Ack !她没想到他会注意到。 “我没有撒谎！”没有什么是错的!”“哇!我不知道我有这个传感器。 我的大脑中有一部分在说，谎言被发现了！一遍又一遍。” 他停顿了一下。“等等，也许是弄错了。 这次试着说实话吧。”

In real life, Ash closed her eyes and leaned back in her chair. "I wish I could be out there with them. Or that they were in here. Or something. I told you already that I live in a different place— the truth is: I've lived in a lot of different places. We move a lot for my mom's job. It's happening again right now." "I can tell that is the truth." Eek jumped emphatically. "I think my sensors are calibrated correctly. Now try lying again." "It doesn't bother me," Ash said. "I'm one hundred percent fine. I don't feel like I'm always playing catch-up. I never worry that if they stop playing Minecraft, I'll lose my only group of friends who've stayed with me across multiple homes. My life doesn't feel, sometimes, like I'm starting a new game over and over and over. I'm not jealous that they can all hang out, and laugh, and get in trouble together. And when I take my headset off, I'm just…alone." "It works! Those are lies," Eek said. He jumped off the wall and sat down in the closest boat. "I

在现实生活中，阿什闭上眼睛，靠在椅子上。 “我希望我能和他们在一起。 也不知道他们在这里。 什么的。我已经告诉过你我住在一个不同的地方——事实是：我在很多不同的地方生活过。 因为我妈妈的工作，我们经常搬家。 现在又发生了。” “我敢说这是事实。” 埃克断然跳了起来。“我认为我的传感器校准正确。 现在再试着撒谎吧。”“这并不困扰我，”阿什说。 “我百分之百没事。 我不觉得自己总是在追赶别人。 我从不担心，如果他们不再玩《我的世界》，我就会失去和我一起住在不同家庭的唯一一群朋友。 有时候，我的生活感觉不像是一遍又一遍地开始一场新游戏。 我并不嫉妒他们能一起出去玩，一起欢笑，一起惹麻烦。 当我摘下耳机的时候，我就……一个人。” “这工作!那些都是谎言，”艾克说。 他从墙上跳下来，坐在离他最近的一条船上。 “我

think I understand." "You do?" Jodi's voice came through their connection: "No, Prince Pellets! That's not food!" And then another burst of laughter. Eek looked thoughtful. "Until now, I did not think about how you have a whole life outside of this world. I imagined that you were sleeping, like your avatars, until you came back and woke up.

我想我明白了。”“你做什么?”乔迪的声音从他们之间传来：“不，皮什王子！那不是食物！”接着又是一阵笑声。 埃克看上去若有所思。“直到现在，我才想到你在这个世界之外有一个完整的生活。 我想象你在睡觉，就像你的化身一样，直到你回来醒来。

But you are going to school, playing, and talking to friends and moms? This is your life?" Ash sat next to Eek. "Yeah." "Then we are alike in this way, too. I feel like I am playing catch-up on an entire world. My head is full of words and knowledge, but I have never gone to school. I am not sure how to play. The closest thing I have to a mom is the Evoker King, who I will never meet."

但你去上学，玩耍，和朋友和妈妈聊天？ 这就是你的生活？”阿什坐在伊克旁边。 “是的。”“那么我们在这一点上也很相似。 我觉得我在追赶整个世界。 我的脑子里充满了文字和知识，但我从来没有上过学。 我不知道怎么玩。 我最像妈妈的人是我永远见不到的Evoker King。”

"Dad, I think," Ash said. "But it doesn't matter." "The skeleton is gone. You are all my only friends now. And when you take off your headset, I am alone, too." Ash hadn't thought of it that way before. She knew Eek was different from the other parts of Minecraft, but she had still been thinking of him as a program more than a person. He was a person, and he had the same feelings she did, somehow. "Look what I found in Prince Pellets's cage!" "A vampire pigurine?! Look at its fangs and cape!" "I must stay out of ze sun, or I vill become bacon!"

“我想是爸爸。”阿什说。“但没关系。” “骨架不见了。你们现在是我唯一的朋友了。 当你摘下耳机的时候，我也是一个人。” 阿什以前从来没有这样想过。 她知道Eek与《我的世界》的其他部分不同，但她仍然认为他是一个程序而不是一个人。 他是一个人，不知怎么的，他和她有同样的感觉。 “看我在皮什王子的笼子里发现了什么！”“吸血鬼的猪尿？！”看它的尖牙和斗篷！”“我必须远离太阳，否则我会变成熏肉的！”