Chapter 13

Chapter 13 ANGRY BEES TO THE LEFT OF ME! SPIDERS TO THE RIGHT! (BUT AT LEAST THERE'S GOOD SYMMETRY!) Harper ran to rejoin her friends as quickly as she could. It wasn't fast enough to avoid being stung in the back. "OW!" she cried, and she felt the bee's poison weakening her. Worse, she knew that the bee that had stung her would die.

第13章愤怒的蜜蜂在我的左边！右边有蜘蛛！（但至少有很好的对称性！）哈珀以最快的速度跑去和她的朋友们团聚。 它跑得不够快，无法避免背上被蜇。 “噢！”她叫了起来，她感到蜜蜂的毒液使她虚弱起来。 更糟糕的是，她知道蜇过她的蜜蜂会死。

She didn't want that to happen. She didn't want to fight the bees. She'd just spent days bringing them back from the brink of disaster! "What did you do?" asked Morgan. "Nothing!" said Harper. She held up her shield, blocking a dive-bombing bee. "They delivered their message, and then they got really mad." Morgan swatted the nearest bee away with his hand, clearly afraid that a sword would do too much damage. "What was the message?" he asked. "Protect the balance," Harper said. "ARE THEY MAD BECAUSE WE AREN'T DOING THAT?" "Uh," said Po, also swatting a bee. "Jodi and I did sort of cause a forest fire." "We're very sorry about it!" said Jodi as she ran in circles, pursued by angry bees. "But we fixed that damage," said Theo. "We restored the balance. They should have forgiven us for that." As he focused on dodging a bee, a spider struck him from behind. "Yowch! Okay, this is ridiculous. Where are the spiders coming from?" "I THINK THEY'RE COMING OUT OF THAT HOLE!" said Jodi, motioning over her shoulder as she ran past. "Over that way!" Theo and Harper fought their way through the spiders, working in the direction Jodi had indicated.

她不希望发生这种事。 她不想和蜜蜂打架。 她刚刚花了几天时间把他们从灾难的边缘救了回来！“你做了什么？”摩根问。 “没什么！”哈珀说。她举起盾牌，挡住了一只俯冲轰炸的蜜蜂。 “他们传达了他们的信息，然后他们真的很生气。” 摩根用手拍走了最近的一只蜜蜂，显然他害怕剑会造成太大的伤害。 “口信是什么？”他问。 “保护平衡，”哈珀说。 “他们是不是因为我们不这么做而生气？”“嗯，”阿宝说，也拍了一只蜜蜂。 “乔迪和我确实引起了一场森林大火。” “我们对此感到非常抱歉！”乔迪一边说，一边绕着圈子跑，被愤怒的蜜蜂追着。 “但是我们修复了损坏，”西奥说。 “我们恢复了平衡。他们应该原谅我们的。” 正当他集中精力躲避一只蜜蜂时，一只蜘蛛从背后袭击了他。 “Yowch !好吧，这太荒谬了。 蜘蛛是从哪儿来的？”“我想他们从洞里出来了！”乔迪一边跑过去一边回头示意。 “那边！”西奥和哈珀朝着乔迪指示的方向挤过蜘蛛。

They found the hole, and inside it… "A dungeon," said Theo. "WE MUST HAVE MADE THIS HOLE BY ACCIDENT WHEN WE WERE LANDSCAPING." "And there's a spawner inside," said Harper. She could see the glow of its fire, flickering in the dark. The spawner would keep making spiders as long as they could defeat them. "I'VE GOT TO DESTROY IT," Theo said. "That'll take care of the spiders, at least." He traded his sword for a pickaxe and carved a bigger hole, giving him easy access to the spawner. He raised his pickaxe, ready to destroy it.

他们找到了那个洞，在里面……“一个地牢。”西奥说。 “我们一定是在美化环境的时候不小心挖了这个洞。” “里面还有一条产卵鱼。”哈珀说。 她能看见火光在黑暗中闪烁。 只要能打败蜘蛛，产卵者就会不停地制造蜘蛛。 “我必须摧毁它，”西奥说。 “那至少可以对付蜘蛛了。” 他把剑换成了鹤嘴锄，挖了一个更大的洞，这样他就能很容易地接近产卵器。 他举起鹤嘴锄，准备把它毁掉。

And Harper yelled, "STOP!" Theo did stop, but his confusion was obvious. "Why am I stopping?" he asked, holding his pickaxe just above the spider spawner.

哈珀喊道：“住手！”西奥停下来了，但他的困惑是显而易见的。 “我为什么要停下来？”他问道，把鹤嘴锄举到蜘蛛产卵器上方。

"The bees' message," Harper said. "The balance. WE'RE DISRUPTING THE BALANCE! We had no right to attack the spiders like we did. We started the fight. Just like we started the fire." "So what can we do about it now?" asked Theo. "We can leave," said Harper. "We put this biome back together. Now we should…just leave it be." Theo trusted Harper, but Morgan wasn't happy with the plan. "It feels like we're retreating," he said. "Like we're giving up."

“蜜蜂的信息，”哈珀说。 “平衡。我们破坏了平衡！我们没有权利像我们那样攻击蜘蛛。 是我们挑起的。就像我们引起的火灾一样。” “那我们现在能做些什么呢？”西奥问。 “我们可以走了。”哈帕说。 “我们把这个生物群落重新组合在一起。 现在我们应该……别管它了。” 西奥信任哈珀，但摩根对这个计划不满意。 “感觉我们在撤退，”他说。 “就像我们放弃了。”