Chapter 13

Chapter 13 BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU TRAP FOR. YOU JUST MIGHT CATCH IT! "A DEBATE?!" said Morgan. "Po, are you sure that's the best idea?" "No, I'm not," Po admitted. "But I panicked. I wasn't thinking!" It was after school, and Morgan and Po were in the library, waiting for the others to join them. "I've been doing that a lot lately, haven't I?" he said after a moment. "Speaking without thinking first, I mean. I'm sorry I lost my temper yesterday." Morgan sighed. "Yeah, well. I'm sorry I pretended my cookies weren't terrible. They really are inedible." Po laughed. "I appreciate that you made the effort. And I appreciate their obsidian-like quality." Morgan smiled. It felt like everything was back to normal. Po was being his old, fun self again. "But

第十三章小心你的陷阱。 你可能会被传染的！“辩论？！”摩根说。 “阿宝，你确定这是个好主意吗？”“不，我不是，”阿宝承认。 “但我慌了。我没在想什么！”那是放学后，摩根和阿宝在图书馆里，等着其他人加入他们。 “我最近经常这样做，不是吗？”过了一会儿，他说。 “我是说，说话不加思考。 对不起，我昨天发脾气了。” 摩根叹了口气。“是的,很好。 我很抱歉我假装我的饼干不好吃。 它们真的不能吃。” 阿宝笑了。“我很感激你的努力。 我很欣赏它们黑曜石般的品质。” 摩根笑了。感觉一切都恢复正常了。 阿宝又回到了他那个有趣的老样子。 “但

seriously, Po," he said. "What's been going on with you? Are you, you know…all right?" Po took another moment to think before answering. "I want to win the election," he said. "I want it really badly. I don't even know why—I just hate the thought of losing." "Everybody likes to win," said Morgan. "But sometimes that makes us fight the wrong battles." Po blinked. "Morgan, that sounded seriously wise!" Morgan blushed and confessed, "I'm actually just quoting something Ash said yesterday." "Well, if you're going to steal," said Po, "steal from the best." Theo, Harper, and Jodi arrived. The five of them all put their headsets on at the same

说真的，阿宝，”他说。“你到底怎么了？” 你，你知道……没事吧？”阿宝又想了一会儿才回答。 “我想赢得选举，”他说。 “我真的很想要。我甚至不知道为什么——我只是讨厌失败的想法。” “每个人都想赢，”摩根说。 “但有时这让我们打错了仗。” 阿宝眨了眨眼睛。“摩根，这听起来真的很明智！”摩根脸红了，承认道：“其实我只是在引用阿什昨天说过的话。” “好吧，如果你要偷，”阿宝说，“那就偷最好的。” 西奥、哈珀和乔迪来了。 他们五个人同时戴上了耳机

time--as a team. In the caverns beneath the Overworld, the trap had been set. Now they needed to lure the spider out of its hiding place. Po followed his friends through the dark tunnel that led to the spider's den. "I can't believe we're going toward the creepy- crawly," said Jodi.

时间——作为一个团队。在上面世界下面的洞穴里，陷阱已经设好了。 现在他们需要把蜘蛛从它的藏身之处引诱出来。 阿宝跟着他的朋友们穿过通向蜘蛛窝的黑暗隧道。 乔迪说：“我真不敢相信我们正在朝着令人毛骨悚然的方向发展。”

"It's okay," said Ash. "WE'VE GOT EACH OTHER BACKS." "Yeah," said Morgan. "Except for the part of the plan where we're all alone…" Po was nervous about that, too. But he trusted Harper and Theo, who had come up with this whole idea. They had figured out where to dig the tunnels and where to place the redstone dust. The blueprint that showed where everything should go looked a little bit like a spider's web. That had made Po giggle… nervously. They were going to catch the spider in a web of their own. But it was a very big spider. They all walked slowly as they approached the den. The strange green mist swirled all around them. And there, surrounded by its loyal mobs, was the spider. Po whispered, "Okay, there he is. Lucky us! Now what?" Harper grinned. "Now we make a mess. EVERYBODY, THROW YOUR POTIONS!"

“没关系，”阿什说。“我们互相支持。” “是的，”摩根说。“除了计划中我们单独在一起的那部分……”阿宝对此也很紧张。 但是他信任哈珀和西奥，他们想出了这个主意。 他们已经想出了在哪里挖隧道和在哪里放置红石粉。 蓝图显示了所有东西的走向，看起来有点像蜘蛛网。 这让阿宝紧张地咯咯笑了起来。 他们打算用自己的网去抓蜘蛛。 但它是一只非常大的蜘蛛。 他们都慢慢地走向洞穴。 奇怪的绿雾在他们周围旋转。 在那里，蜘蛛被它的忠实的暴徒包围着。 阿宝低声说：“好吧，他来了。 幸运的我们!现在怎么办呢?”哈珀咧嘴一笑。 “现在我们搞得一团糟。大家把你们的魔药扔掉！”

Po didn't need to be told twice. He threw the Splash Potion that Harper had given him, and the other kids did the same. The potions glowed purple as they spun through the air. When the bottles shattered, the liquid splashed the spider, the villagers, the axolotls, and all the other mobs with Slowness. Now the mobs would be easy to outrun for the next ninety seconds. They needed to make those ninety seconds matter. "Come and get us!" Theo said, and the spider turned its red eyes on them and hissed. It was the sound of paper being torn to shreds in anger. In seconds, the entire group of mobs stepped forward. Their eyes, too, flashed red as they gave chase. "HERE THEY COME," said Ash.

阿宝不需要被告知两次。 他把哈珀给他的飞溅药水扔了下去，其他孩子也跟着扔了下去。 药剂在空中旋转，发出紫色的光。 当瓶子破碎时，液体溅到了蜘蛛、村民、蝾螈和所有其他的生物身上。 现在，在接下来的90秒里，暴徒们很容易逃跑。 他们需要让这90秒变得重要起来。 “快来救我们！”西奥说，蜘蛛把它的红眼睛转向他们，发出嘶嘶声。 那是愤怒中纸被撕成碎片的声音。 几秒钟后，这群暴徒走上前来。 他们追赶的时候，眼睛也闪着红光。 “他们来了。”阿什说。

"Be careful what you wish for, I guess," said Jodi. "Let's go," said Harper. "Follow me!" As a group, they turned and ran down the tunnel. But then Morgan turned right down a side path. And a little farther up, Jodi turned left. Po felt a little rush of nervousness as he took a different side path of his own. He knew their plan relied on this. They needed to separate that big crowd of mobs, and the best way to do that was to split up. Still, he was anxious about being alone in the dark. He looked back and saw that several of the villagers had turned to follow him. They were moving slowly because of the potion, so it was easy for Po to stay out of their reach. In fact, he slowed down a little bit. He didn't want to lose them.

“我想，你许愿的时候要小心。”乔迪说。 “我们走吧。”哈珀说。“跟我来!”作为一个团体，他们转身跑下隧道。 但后来摩根走上了一条岔路。 再往上一点，乔迪向左转。 阿宝走了一条不同的小路，心里有点紧张。 他知道他们的计划依赖于此。 他们需要把这一大群暴徒分开，最好的办法就是分开。 尽管如此，他还是对独自一人在黑暗中感到焦虑。 他回头一看，发现有几个村民也跟着他走了。 因为有魔药，他们走得很慢，所以阿宝很容易躲在他们够不着的地方。 事实上，他放慢了一点速度。 他不想失去他们。