Chapter 4

Chapter 4 DONT BUILD WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS. DO BUILD HALLS BETWEEN YOU AND HOSTILE MOBS OF UNKNONN ORIGIN. Po stepped out of the Shack in time to see the Evoker King splitting apart. Po was usually quick with a joke. He didn't take many things seriously. Even when Minecraft got scary, he usually remembered that it was a game. But this wasn't funny. What if the Evoker King crumbled to dust before their very eyes? What if their new friend was just…shattered? Broken? Destroyed? Po had to do something! He crossed the grass in a hurry. Then he wrapped his arms around the Evoker King's stony surface.

不要在你和朋友之间筑墙。 一定要在你和来历不明的敌对暴徒之间建造大厅。 阿宝及时走出窝棚，看到Evoker国王分裂了。 阿宝通常很快就会讲笑话。 他对很多事情都不太认真。 即使当《我的世界》变得可怕时，他通常也会记得这是一款游戏。 但这并不好笑。万一唤起者之王在他们眼前化为灰烬呢？ 如果他们的新朋友只是……崩溃了呢？ 坏了?摧毁了吗?阿宝必须做点什么！他匆忙地穿过草地。 然后他双臂环抱着唤醒王的石质表面。

Maybe if he squeezed tightly enough, he could hold him together. Maybe not. There was a great flash of light and a sound like breaking pottery. Po flew backward—wings and all —and crashed into his friends. They tumbled to the ground in a heap. When Po lifted his head off the ground, the air was thick with curls of smoke and something bright and colorful, flickering and flitting. Butterflies? There weren't supposed to be butterflies in Minecraft, but Po could swear he saw them fluttering through the smoke. Maybe he just had butterflies on the brain.

也许如果他挤得够紧，就能把他抱在一起。 也许不是。一道巨大的闪光和一声像打碎陶器的声音。 阿宝向后飞，翅膀着地，撞上了他的朋友们。 他们倒在地上堆成一堆。 当阿宝从地上抬起头时，空气中弥漫着浓密的烟雾，还有一种明亮而多彩的东西，闪烁着，飞舞着。 蝴蝶?《我的世界》里不应该有蝴蝶，但阿宝发誓他看到它们在烟雾中飞舞。 也许他只是脑子里有蝴蝶。

He strained his eyes. Just barely, he could see something else moving in the smoke. Something much bigger than a butterfly… "Is…is that you, E.K.?" he asked. There was no answer except a low growl. "That sure didn't sound like him," said Morgan. Po still couldn't make out many details through the smoke and dust. Was that…a wing? A huge rocky fist? A pig snout? Something was very, very wrong here. Po started laying down a row of blocks. Stone, dirt, brick—anything and everything he had in his inventory. "Wall. NOW!" he shouted.

他眯起眼睛。他勉强看到烟雾中还有什么东西在动。 “是……是你吗，E.K.?”他问。 没有回答，只有一声低吼。 “这听起来肯定不像他。”摩根说。 在烟雾和灰尘中，阿宝仍然看不清许多细节。 那是…翅膀吗？一个巨大的岩石拳头？ 猪鼻子？这里出了非常非常严重的问题。 阿宝开始铺一排积木。 石头、泥土、砖头——他库存里的任何东西。 “墙。现在！”他喊道。

Harper quickly joined him. They didn't stop until there was a low wall between them and…whatever was out there. "What did you see?" asked Morgan. Po just hushed him. They all waited in silence for a long minute. They heard grunting and growling and a series of wet snorts. Then they heard flapping wings and trudging feet. All the sounds began to get farther away. Finally, there was silence. Po waited another minute before he poked his head above the wall. There was nothing there. Just a crater where the Evoker King had once stood.

哈珀很快也加入了他的行列。 直到有一堵矮墙挡在他们和外面的东西之间，他们才停下来。 “你看到了什么？”摩根问。 阿宝让他安静下来。他们都默默地等了很长一分钟。 他们听到了咕哝声、咆哮声和一连串潮湿的鼻息声。 然后他们听到了拍打翅膀和沉重的脚步声。 所有的声音都开始变得更远了。 最后是沉默。 阿宝又等了一分钟，才从墙上探出头来。 那里什么也没有。只是一个火山口，在那里，Evoker国王曾经站过。

"What in the world was that?!" Jodi cried, leaving the safety of the wall to peer into the crater. "That shouldn't have been possible," said Harper. "I GOT THE ENCHANTMENT RIGHT…I KNOW I DID." "Maybe someone else should take this thing," Theo said, setting down the glowing pickaxe. "I feel sick." "I don't understand what happened," Po said. He looked around. "Did the Evoker King just explode? Is he…gone? Forever?" "Maybe not," said Jodi. "LOOK OVER HERE. FOOTPRINTS!" Po saw what she meant. There was a line of little squares leading away from the crater, across the grass, and into the nearby forest. Those squares looked like small, blocky footsteps. Morgan seemed suspicious. "Since when are there footprints in Minecraft?" "Well, I can explain that one, at least," Theo said. He snuck a guilty look at Morgan. "It's a mod."

“那到底是什么？！”乔迪叫道，离开安全的岩壁，往火山口里看。 “这是不可能的，”哈珀说。 “我的魔法是对的……我知道我是对的。” “也许应该让别人来拿这个东西，”西奥说着，放下了那把发光的鹤嘴锄。 “我觉得不舒服。”“我不明白发生了什么，”阿宝说。 他环顾四周。“唤醒王刚刚爆炸了吗？” 他是……了吗?永远?”“也许不是，”乔迪说。 “看这里。脚印!”阿宝明白她的意思。 有一排小方块从火山口延伸出来，穿过草地，进入附近的森林。 那些方块看起来像一块块的小脚印。 摩根似乎很怀疑。“什么时候《我的世界》里出现了脚印？”“好吧，至少我可以解释这一点，”西奥说。 他偷偷地愧疚地看了摩根一眼。 “这是一个mod。”

"DOC MADE A FOOTPRINT MOD?" said Po. "Why haven't we noticed it before now?" "It's not one of Doc's," Theo said. "IT'S ONE OF MINE." Morgan frowned. "I thought I told you not to add any new mods," he said. "But I did this before you said that," Theo said quickly. "And this mod is harmless. And helpful!" He smiled. "I did it for Ash. This way, if we ever leave our Shack without her, she can just follow our footprints to find us." "Sure," said Morgan. "But what else might follow our footprints? What if this mod leads monsters right to us?" Theo's smile evaporated. "I don't think that will happen." "You don't think so," said Morgan. "But that's the point. You aren't sure. You're being reckless!" "Morgan," said Jodi. "Don't be mean." "I'm not being mean!" Morgan argued. "Unlike Theo, I'm being a team player. When you're on a team, you talk about this stuff before you do it." He turned to face Theo. "Okay, Theo? YOU CAN'T JUST DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO, BECAUSE IT AFFECTS US ALL."

“博士做了一个脚印模型？”阿宝说。 “为什么我们以前没有注意到呢？”“这不是博士的，”西奥说。 “这是我的一个。”摩根皱起了眉头。 “我想我告诉过你不要添加任何新的mod，”他说。 “但在你说那个之前，我已经做了这个。”西奥很快地说。 “这个mod是无害的。 和有用的!”他笑了。“我这么做是为了阿什。 这样，如果我们离开小屋时不带上她，她就能跟着我们的脚印找到我们。” “当然，”摩根说。“但是，还有什么会跟着我们的足迹呢？” 如果这个mod把怪物引向我们怎么办？”西奥的笑容消失了。 “我认为这不会发生。” “你不这么认为，”摩根说。 “但这就是问题所在。你不确定。 你太鲁莽了！”“摩根，”乔迪说。 “别那么刻薄。”“我不是刻薄！”摩根说。 “不像西奥，我是一个团队合作者。 当你在一个团队里的时候，你会在行动之前谈论这些事情。” 他转过身来面对西奥。“好吧,西奥? 你不能随心所欲，因为这会影响到我们所有人。”