Chapter 9

Chapter 9 LET'S GIVE NATURE A HAND…. AFTER ALL, NATURE GAVE US HANDS TO START WITH! There was nothing more they could do for the Stonesword bees. Doc needed time to run tests, but she promised to tell Harper as soon as she'd learned anything. In the meantime, the kids had a flower forest biome to rebuild. Their saplings had already grown into adult trees, but the Minecraft bees wouldn't multiply on their own. "Okay, Morgan," said Harper. "You're the expert. How do we breed bees?" "It's easy," Morgan answered. "TO START, WE JUST NEED FLOWERS." "Oh!" said Po, who was dressed as a giant flower. "It's so nice to be needed."

第九章让我们帮助大自然.... 毕竟，大自然给了我们双手！对于石语的蜜蜂，他们无能为力。 医生需要时间做检查，但她答应一有发现就告诉哈珀。 与此同时，孩子们要重建一个花林生物群落。 他们的小树苗已经长成了成年树，但《我的世界》中的蜜蜂无法自己繁殖。 “好吧，摩根。”哈珀说。 “你是专家。我们如何培育蜜蜂？”“很简单，”摩根回答。 “首先，我们只需要花。” “哦！”阿宝说，他打扮成一朵巨大的花。 “被需要的感觉真好。”

Theo rolled his eyes. "You won't be so happy when the bees mistake you for lunch," he said. "IT'S WORKING!" said Jodi, and she ran past them, laughing. She held a purple allium flower in her hand, and a bee was following her wherever she went. "We don't know how many bees we'll need in order to receive their message," said Morgan. "But let's assume it's a big number. We'll want a lot of flowers."

西奥翻了个白眼。“当蜜蜂把你当成午餐时，你就不会这么高兴了，”他说。 “起作用了！”乔迪说着，笑着从他们身边跑过。 她手里拿着一朵紫色的葱花，无论她走到哪里，一只蜜蜂都跟着她。 摩根说：“我们不知道需要多少只蜜蜂才能接收到它们的信息。” “但让我们假设这是一个很大的数字。 我们需要很多花。”

"WE CAN EXPLORE THE NEARBY BIOMES," said Harper. "We'll gather whatever flowers we find and bring them back here." "Even better if we find some bone meal," said Theo. "That will encourage new flowers to grow." "PICKING FIGHTS WITH SKELETONS?" said Po. "Who knew that raising bees would be so adventurous?" The work went quickly once everyone had their assignments. Jodi in particular enjoyed the task of finding various flowers, and Theo liked replanting them in the flower forest. Morgan proved adept at flushing skeletons out of caves and leading them into an ambush. Po especially liked defeating the undead mobs while dressed as a flower. Harper took on the task of breeding more bees. She would wait until Jodi and Theo had an extra flower to spare, then she would feed the flower to the nearest bee. Soon, several little baby bees fluttered through the forest. "They need a place to live," Harper said of the baby bees. "There's no room for them in the nest." "I've got an idea for that," said Morgan. "BUT WE NEED HONEYCOMB FIRST." Morgan showed Harper how the Minecraft bees acted much like their real-world counterparts.

“我们可以探索附近的生物群落，”哈珀说。 “我们会收集任何我们找到的花，然后把它们带回这里。” “如果我们能找到一些骨粉就更好了，”西奥说。 “这将鼓励新的花朵生长。” “跟骷髅打架？”阿宝说。 “谁知道养蜜蜂会这么冒险？”一旦每个人都有了自己的任务，工作就进行得很快。 乔迪特别喜欢寻找各种各样的花，西奥喜欢把它们重新种在花林里。 摩根很擅长把骷髅从洞穴里冲出来，然后把它们引到埋伏处。 阿宝特别喜欢打扮成花的样子打败不死族。 哈珀承担了培育更多蜜蜂的任务。 她会等到乔迪和西奥有多余的花，然后把花喂给最近的蜜蜂。 很快，几只小蜜蜂扑扇着翅膀飞过森林。 “它们需要一个居住的地方，”哈珀谈到这些小蜜蜂时说。 “鸟巢里没有它们的空间。” “我有个主意，”摩根说。 “但我们首先需要蜂巢。” Morgan向Harper展示了《我的世界》中的蜜蜂是如何像现实世界中的蜜蜂一样行动的。

"Watch," he said. "The bees will fly to a flower to collect nectar. Then they'll return to their nest to make honey with it." Harper noticed that little flecks of yellow stuck to the bees' bodies when they interacted with a flower. "IS THAT POLLEN?" she asked. "Yeah," said Morgan. "Again, it's just like real life. The bees get pollen on them, and the pollen spreads all over the forest. It can make some plants grow faster. Crops and berry bushes, for instance." "We should plant some berry bushes," Harper suggested. "I think they'd look nice in our forest." Sometime later, after the sun had gone down, Harper saw what Morgan had been waiting for. "Look," she said. "THEIR NEST IS DRIPPING WITH HONEY." "We'll have to be careful with this next part," he said. "Since it's night, the bees are inside their nest, and we don't want to upset them. Get your shears ready. But don't use them until I say." Harper watched as Morgan lit a campfire beneath the honey-heavy nest. "SMOKE FROM THE FIRE WILL KEEP THE BEES CALM," he said. "Now you can use the shears on the nest to cut away some honeycomb."

“看，”他说。“蜜蜂会飞到花上采花蜜。 然后它们就会回到它们的巢里用它酿蜜。” 哈珀注意到，当蜜蜂与花朵互动时，它们的身体上会粘上黄色的小斑点。 “那是花粉吗？”她问。 “是的，”摩根说。“再说一次，这就像现实生活一样。 蜜蜂把花粉带到它们身上，然后花粉传遍了整个森林。 它可以使一些植物生长得更快。 比如农作物和浆果丛。” “我们应该种一些浆果丛，”哈珀建议道。 “我认为它们在我们的森林里会很好看。” 过了一段时间，太阳落山后，哈珀看到了摩根一直在等待的东西。 “看，”她说。“它们的窝里滴着蜜。” 他说：“我们必须小心处理下一部分。” “因为是晚上，蜜蜂在它们的巢里，我们不想打扰它们。 把你的剪刀准备好。但等我说了再用。” 哈珀看着摩根在满是蜂蜜的巢下燃起营火。 “从火中冒出的烟会让蜜蜂保持平静，”他说。 “现在你可以用剪刀在巢上剪掉一些蜂巢。”

Harper did just as he said. With a quick snip, several pieces of honeycomb fell into her inventory.

哈珀照他说的做了。 啪的一声，几块蜂窝状的碎片掉进了她的箱子里。