Chapter 2

Chapter 2 There's No Business like Snow Business! Eek wandered the mountain alone. The strange silver player had vanished completely. He couldn't even find footprints! After an hour without locating a path home or even landmarks other than the crater from the creeper's explosion, Eek decided to wander down the mountain. At the base, he finally spotted something—light! Something was glowing dimly, illuminating a few tiny buildings of wood and ice.

第二章天下没有比下雪更好的生意了！周独自在山上徘徊。 那个奇怪的银牌手已经完全消失了。 他甚至找不到脚印！一个小时后，除了爬山虎爆炸留下的陨石坑外，埃克没有找到回家的路，甚至没有找到任何地标，他决定漫步下山。 在基地，他终于发现了一些东西——光！有什么东西在模糊地发光，照亮了几座由木头和冰构成的小房子。

As he approached, Eek saw a set of lamps and torches. There was a narrow igloo, a couple of houses, and a tall church. Some part of his programming told him what this place was—a village. One by one, villagers stepped out of their houses into the snow as he watched. Eek was amazed. They looked like him! Well, sort of. The villagers were taller, and their heads were smaller. They had different eyebrows. But their noses matched exactly.

当他走近时，埃克看到一组灯和火把。 有一座狭窄的冰屋，几座房子和一座高大的教堂。 他的程序告诉他这个地方是什么——一个村庄。 在他的注视下，村民们一个接一个地走出家门，走进雪地。 埃克很吃惊。他们看起来像他！嗯，算是吧。 村民们都高了，头也小了。 他们有不同的眉毛。 但他们的鼻子完全吻合。

"Hello!" Eek said. "I am sorry to bother you, but do you know the way back to where new players spawn? I seem to be lost." "Honk," honked a villager. Eek nodded. "Honk indeed." That villager wandered off. Behind it, Eek noticed another in a straw hat, holding a hoe. "Ah! Do you enjoy farming as well?" The villager didn't seem to care much about Eek. They focused on tilling their little patch of soil and monitoring the crops. But Eek got a weird feeling. A strange sense that this farmer wanted something from him. Eek reached into his

“你好!”唷说。“我很抱歉打扰你，但你知道回到新玩家出现的地方的路吗？ 我好像迷路了。”“按喇叭，”一个村民按喇叭。 然后点了点头。“嘎。” 那个村民走丢了。 在它后面，埃克注意到另一个戴着草帽，拿着锄头的人。 “啊!你也喜欢种地吗？”村民似乎不太关心艾克。 他们专注于耕种那一小块土地和监测作物。 但是艾克有一种奇怪的感觉。 一种奇怪的感觉，这个农民想从他身上得到什么。 埃克把手伸进他的手

inventory and pulled out a stack of wheat he'd grown on his own small farm. Immediately the farmer turned to focus on him —and held out a beautiful green gemstone in response! Eek had never seen something so green. He had to have it. The sense Eek was starting to recognize as his programming showed him how to connect with the villager. He focused on it, and a

然后拿出一堆他在自己的小农场里种的小麦。 农夫立刻转过身来看着他，并拿出一颗美丽的绿色宝石作为回应！埃克从来没有见过这么绿的东西。 他必须拥有它。当他的程序告诉他如何与村民建立联系时，埃克开始意识到这种感觉。 他专注于它，然后

little window opened with possible trades. The top one was wheat for an emerald. Eek reached out and selected it. His wheat vanished, and suddenly he had an emerald. "Thank you!" he said. "Honk," replied the farmer. As Eek explored the rest of the village, he sensed all sorts of things about the villagers: some were looking for jobs, some had things to trade, and some even wanted children. (Eek chuckled to himself at the thought of tiny villager children.) The other mobs he'd met weren't like this. These villagers needed something, and there was so much he could do for them! And Eek really wanted practice in the game to better help his friends— "Honk?" a villager interupted. "Honk!" Eek answered. Of course he would stay. He had almost a whole day before his friends logged in and he needed to be back at the base. Until then, he finally had something to do, villagers to

有可能进行交易的小窗口打开了。 最上面的那颗是小麦换翡翠。 周杰伦伸手挑选了它。 他的麦子不见了，突然他有了一块绿宝石。 “谢谢你！”他说。“呜，”农夫回答。 当埃克在村子里四处探索时，他感觉到了村民们的各种各样的事情：有些人在找工作，有些人有东西要做交易，有些人甚至想要孩子。 （一想到村里的小孩子，埃克就暗自发笑。）他遇到的其他暴徒不是这样的。 这些村民需要一些东西，他可以为他们做很多事情！埃克真的很想在游戏中练习，以更好地帮助他的朋友——“呜？”一个村民打断了他。 “嘎!”呀回答。他当然会留下来。 在他的朋友登陆之前，他几乎有一整天的时间，他需要回到基地。 直到那时，他终于有事可做了，村民来了

spend time with, and emeralds to collect. What amazing luck! His decision made, Eek got to work. The village needed a fisherman, so he made a barrel and gave one villager the job. They needed a leatherworker, so he went mining for iron and crafted them a cauldron. Eek didn't need to sleep. He had plenty of crops to eat, and he could build faster than any human. For hours and hours Eek collected materials, crafted beds and built houses for new villager babies, placed paths down on the ground, added new buildings for every job, and upgraded every building already there. He decorated the streets with little statues of his friends, traded each villager for everything they asked for, and filled his inventory with whatever the snowy plains would provide.

花时间与人相处，收集祖母绿。 真是太幸运了！他决定了，艾克开始工作。 村子里需要一个渔夫，所以他做了一个桶，把工作交给了一个村民。 他们需要一个皮匠，所以他去挖铁，为他们制作了一个大锅。 埃克不需要睡觉。他有足够的庄稼吃，而且他建造的速度比任何人都快。 周克花了好几个小时收集材料，为新村民的婴儿制作床和建造房子，在地面上铺设道路，为每个任务添加新建筑，并升级现有的建筑。 他用朋友的小雕像装饰街道，和每个村民交换他们想要的东西，用雪原上的东西填满他的库存。