Chapter 11

Chapter 11 AC Inspector Here. No, I Don't Handle B. I Don't Know about D Through Z, Either. Just A and C for Me! Harper followed Principal Ferris's pointed finger to its target: Doc Culpepper, standing in her closet and holding a bouquet of wires.

第11章AC探长在此。 不，我不会处理b，我也不知道D到Z。 只给我A和C ！哈珀跟着费里斯校长的手指找到了目标：卡尔佩珀医生，他正站在衣橱里，手里拿着一束电线。

"This must be your fault." Principal Ferris's scowl was even more dramatic with his heavy mustache making the same shape. "Connecting all this technology to our servers and computers. Causing bizarre errors. So fix it!" "I've tried!" Doc Culpepper answered. "I inspected the whole system and didn't find anything wrong with the machine itself. There's something wrong with the program controlling the temperature."

“这一定是你的错。” 费里斯校长的怒容更显戏剧性，他浓密的胡子也形成了同样的形状。 “将所有这些技术连接到我们的服务器和计算机上。 导致奇怪的错误。所以把它修好！”“我试过了!”卡尔佩珀医生回答道。 “我检查了整个系统，没有发现机器本身有任何问题。 控制温度的程序出了问题。”

The vents blew hot air harder than ever. Harper wiped sweat from her forehead, but her arm was already sweaty so it didn't help. "We even tried using the administrator password, but—" "You WHAT? How did you get that?!" "Me." Will raised his hand. He was sitting next to Po, who was desperately trying to get his avatar to stop moving on its own. "I gave it to them."

通风口吹热空气的力度比以前更大了。 哈珀擦去额头上的汗水，但她的手臂已经出汗了，所以无济于事。 “我们甚至试过使用管理员密码，但是——”“你什么？” 你怎么弄到的？！”“我。” 威尔举起了手。他坐在阿宝旁边，阿宝正拼命地想让他的化身停止自己的移动。 “我给了他们。”

Principal Ferris's eyes narrowed. "Go to my office. We'll talk about this later, William." Will wandered over to the door, looking disappointed. Oh no. Now Harper had gotten him in trouble. "He was only—" "Harper, one of the blazes has seen us!" Po said. "Jodi, can you—" Jodi was slamming keys on her keyboard. "My computer isn't responding at all! It's frozen!" "More like melted," Po said. "Eek, you need to—" "ERROR!" Eek yelled into her headset. "VARIABLE NOT FOUND!" "I can get this one," Ash said, "but there are more coming!" Principal Ferris cleared his throat. "I was talking to you. Holding side conversations is very rude. It's time we fix this problem." "What are we supposed to do?!" Harper asked. "We've tried everything!"

费里斯校长眯起眼睛。 “到我办公室去。我们以后再谈这个，威廉。” 威尔踱到门口，一副失望的样子。 哦,不。现在哈珀给他惹上了麻烦。 “哈帕，有一颗火焰看见我们了！”阿宝说。 “乔迪，你能不能——”乔迪在键盘上猛敲键盘。 “我的电脑完全没有响应！”是冻!”“更像是融化了。”阿宝说。 “周，你需要——”“错误！”埃克对着耳机喊道。 “没有找到变量！”“我能抓到这只，”阿什说，“但还有更多的要来！”费里斯校长清了清嗓子。 “我在跟你说话。闲谈是很不礼貌的。 是时候解决这个问题了。” “我们该怎么办？！”哈珀问道。 “我们什么都试过了！”

"If we can't break it temporarily," Doc Culpepper said, "then I don't know what we could possibly do to stop it." "My game's stopped working, too!" Po yelped. "Our avatars are just sitting right by the blaze spawner room! Ash and Eek are the only ones left!" "We never had a problem like this before all your Woodsword technology arrived. I suspect shutting the whole thing down will fix the problem." "Please, don't!" Morgan stepped away from the computer to beg Principal Ferris. "You promised we'd have until the end of the week!"

“如果我们不能暂时打破它，”卡尔佩珀博士说，“那么我不知道我们能做些什么来阻止它。” “我的游戏也停止工作了！”阿宝叫喊起来。 “我们的化身就在火焰生成室旁边！”只剩下阿什和伊克了！”“在你们的木剑技术到来之前，我们从来没有遇到过这样的问题。 我怀疑关闭整个网站就能解决问题。” “请不要!”摩根离开电脑去求费里斯校长。 “你答应过我们要等到周末的！”

"You like the heat, right?" Theo asked. "Remember cheese? Extra cheese? Double pepperoni?" "Ah…what I wouldn't do for just one bite of Grandmama Ferris's perfect crust, toasted to perfection—No! This isn't heat. This is fire! The school is getting scorched, roasted, and absolutely burnt to a crisp. I was distracted by nostalgia— something that I should never have let happen in the first place—and was too lenient of this computer bug." Principal Ferris advanced toward their Minecraft server, and Harper felt glued to the ground. Her head felt all buzzy and confused, full of everyone's words and her own stress and exhaustion from not sleeping enough. The heat was clouding her thoughts, and all the little mistakes she made were clouding her feelings. This was why she liked science: things felt dependable and learnable and went according to plan. Nothing like her life today!

“你喜欢热，对吧？”西奥问道。 “还记得奶酪吗?额外的奶酪? 双意大利辣香肠?”“啊……只要能咬一口费里斯奶奶烤得完美的面包皮，我什么都愿意做——不！”这不是热。 这是火！学校被烤焦了，烤焦了，完全烧焦了。 我被怀旧情绪分散了注意力——我一开始就不应该让这种事情发生——而且对这个电脑漏洞太宽容了。” 费里斯校长朝他们的《我的世界》服务器走去，哈珀觉得自己被粘在了地上。 她的脑袋嗡嗡作响，混乱不堪，充满了每个人的话语，还有她自己因睡眠不足而感到的压力和疲惫。 炎热笼罩着她的思想，她犯的所有小错误也笼罩着她的感情。 这就是她喜欢科学的原因：事情让人觉得可靠、可学，而且按计划进行。 跟她今天的生活完全不一样！