Chapter 6

Chapter 6 ANITSY-BITSY SPIDER CAUSED A GREAT BIG PROBLEM! It was several days later when Harper and her friends finally had time to put on the VR goggles and enter Minecraft again. They had expected to appear in the cage where the witch had left them. Instead, their beds and their spawn point had been moved to the edge of the swamp. A nearby chest contained a single item: a map, marked with the location of an island.

第6章小蜘蛛惹了大麻烦！几天后，哈珀和她的朋友们终于有时间戴上VR眼镜，再次进入《我的世界》。 他们原以为会出现在女巫离开他们的笼子里。 相反，他们的床和产卵点被移到了沼泽的边缘。 旁边的一只箱子里只有一件东西：一张地图，上面标着一个岛屿的位置。

The kids knew immediately that the island must be the nearest mushroom field—the only biome where mooshrooms could spawn. Clearly, the witch was eager for their quest to begin. All things considered…it didn't get off to a great start. They had only been walking a short while before they were attacked. It was a spider, lunging at them from the shadows. At first, Harper wasn't worried. They had fought—and defeated—more spiders than they could count. "I've got it," Morgan said, and he swung his sword in a wide arc.

孩子们立刻意识到这个岛一定是最近的蘑菇田——那里是唯一一个蘑菇可以产卵的生物群落。 显然，女巫渴望他们的探索开始。 从各方面考虑，它并没有一个好的开始。 他们刚走了一会儿就遭到袭击。 那是一只蜘蛛，正从阴影中扑向他们。 起初，哈珀并不担心。 他们打过——打败过——数不清的蜘蛛。 “我找到了。”摩根说着，挥了挥剑，划出一个大弧线。

The spider leapt, easily avoiding his attack. Then it sprang at Po, biting him. "Ow!" cried Po. "What did I do?" Harper saw her opening, and she took it. Running forward, she attacked the spider while it was still facing Po. Her sword attack hurt the spider. She could tell by the way it flashed red. But it didn't hurt the spider as much as it should have. "We are in so much trouble," she said as the spider turned its angry red eyes in her direction. It was just a normal, everyday spider. It should have been an easy battle for any one of them. But the witch's curse had changed everything.

蜘蛛跳了起来，轻松地躲过了他的攻击。 然后它扑向阿宝，咬了他一口。 “噢！”阿宝叫道。“我做了什么？”哈珀看到了她的机会，就抓住了。 她跑上前，趁蜘蛛还面对着阿宝的时候攻击了它。 她的剑刺痛了蜘蛛。 她可以通过它闪烁的红色来判断。 但它对蜘蛛的伤害并没有达到应有的程度。 “我们有大麻烦了，”她说，蜘蛛把它愤怒的红眼睛转向她的方向。 它只是一只普通的蜘蛛。 这对他们中的任何一个人来说都应该是一场轻松的战斗。 但是女巫的诅咒改变了一切。

The spider lunged for Harper. She stepped back, striking it again with her sword. At that same instant, Theo shot it with an arrow. Finally, it fell, disappearing in a pixelated puff of dust. "Whew. That was much tougher than it should have been," said Harper, verbalizing her earlier observation. "IT'S LIKE WE'RE NOOBS ALL OVER AGAIN," said Po. He bit into an apple so that he could regain his lost health. "It's worse than that," Theo said. "This 'curse'…I think it's a DEBUFF." "A what, now?" asked Jodi. "A debuff," Theo repeated. "IN A VIDEO GAME, AN ADVANTAGE IS CALLED A BUFF. Like…when a potion makes you stronger, or a blessing makes you faster. That's a buff." "So a debuff is the opposite," Harper said. "Correct," Theo continued. "IT'S A DISADVANTAGE. Something that makes you less powerful." "There are plenty of buffs and debuffs in Minecraft," Morgan added. "Like Weakness, which makes your attacks less powerful." "I CERTAINLY FELT WEAK AGAINST THAT SPIDER" said Harper, and she picked up the string

蜘蛛向哈珀扑去。 她退后一步，又用剑砍了一下。 与此同时，西奥用箭射中了它。 最后，它落了下来，消失在一团像素化的尘埃中。 “呼。“这比它本来应该的要困难得多，”哈珀说，用语言表达她早先的观察。 阿宝说：“就好像我们又是菜鸟一样。” 他咬了一口苹果，以便恢复失去的健康。 “比那还糟，”西奥说。 “这个‘诅咒’……我觉得是个DEBUFF。” “现在是什么？”乔迪问。 “一个debuff。”西奥重复道。 在电子游戏中，优势被称为buff。 比如，当药水让你变得更强壮，或者祝福让你变得更快。 这是一个buff。”“所以debuff是相反的，”Harper说。 “对，”西奥接着说。 “这是一个劣势。一些会削弱你力量的东西。” “在《我的世界》中有很多buff和debuffs，”Morgan补充道。 “比如虚弱，它会让你的攻击变得不那么强大。” “面对那只蜘蛛，我确实感到很虚弱。”哈帕说着，捡起了绳子

and eyeball left behind by the defeated mob. "We had to hit it a lot more times than we usually would." "That's why I'm wearing my special 'chicken pox' skin," said Po. "In real life, I feel fine. But here, I feel totally under the weather. And my pox shows it." Everyone looked at Po, whose avatar today was a chicken covered in polka dots. "Oh, now I get it," said Morgan. "You know chickens don't actually get chicken pox, right?" said Theo. "That virus only affects humans. And apes, I think." Po flapped his feathered arms. "Well, a spotted gorilla would just look ridiculous," he said. "Ba-kaw!"

还有被打败的暴徒留下的眼球。 “我们不得不比平时更多次地击中它。” “这就是为什么我戴着特殊的‘水痘’皮肤，”阿宝说。 “在现实生活中，我感觉很好。 但在这里，我感觉完全不舒服。 我的痘就说明了这一点。”每个人都看着阿宝，今天他的化身是一只满身圆点的鸡。 “哦，现在我明白了，”摩根说。 “你知道鸡实际上不会得水痘，对吧？”西奥说。 “这种病毒只影响人类。 还有猿猴，我想。”阿宝拍打着长着羽毛的手臂。 “嗯，有斑点的大猩猩看起来很可笑，”他说。 “Ba-kaw !”

"I like this look on you," said Harper, and she patted his head. "Careful," Po clucked. "I MIGHT BE CONTAGIOUS." Theo sighed. "Anyway," he said, eager to get back on topic. "I don't think there's anything magical—or even that mysterious—about this so-called witch's curse. It's a debuff—a way of messing with the code." "Then we'd better be careful," said Morgan, and he held up the map for all to see. "Because we've got a long way to go. AND I'M SURE THAT SPIDER ISN'T THE LAST HOSTILE MOB WE'LL HAVE TO FIGHT."

“我喜欢你这副样子。”哈帕说着，拍拍他的头。 “小心，”阿宝咯咯地说。“我可能会传染。” 西奥叹了口气。“不管怎样，”他说，急于回到话题上来。 “我不认为这个所谓的女巫诅咒有什么神奇之处，甚至也不认为它有什么神秘之处。 这是一种篡改代码的方式。” “那我们最好小心点。”摩根说着，举起地图给大家看。 “因为我们还有很长的路要走。 我敢肯定，那只蜘蛛不会是我们最后要对付的敌对暴徒。”